I've always thought it was creepy how gun lovers get all prayerful in their adoration of the second amendment. The idea that somehow the right to have weapons capable of killing lots of innocent people in a short period of time is so sacred, a "God-given" right, superseding the right of individuals to live, doesn't make sense to me from a logical or moral perspective.

So back and forth we go, trying to parse the meaning of words in a written document created by humans hundreds of years ago - the "founding fathers" - people who thought dark-skinned people were only 3/5 as valuable as fair-skinned humans. Yet we have deemed these founders essentially infallible, rather than addressing the real-life effects of such parsing in a way that might stop the horrific slaughter of children at our nation's schools.