the arithmetic of Gun Control

There is a flaw in the theory of the gunseller, a flaw in the mathematics.  It takes some advance calculus to catch it  but once one does it becomes obvious:  the scales of human slaughter are out of balance.
One killer's life is not the balance of an innocent- the killing of a murderer does not restore the victims, does not ease the weight of our grief-- it does nothing but give us a bad bargain- a wasted life for a precious one.  Then there is the calculus of the machine gun, the teeny centimeter pull of a trigger that can take 100 lives- innocent lives.  The twitch of a muscle that makes orphans from happy children, widows of passionate loving women; childless grief of proud parents-- who would never want to see their children dead-- we are not made for that--yet, that is the offer. The bare effort that turned a movie theater into a deathtrap and a kindergarten classroom into something I still can not speak...

Gun sellers make the White Woman of America feel safe, he -for she and her safety- must own weaponry, an arsenal!   She relishes the power of the jolt and boom. Knowing, that if someone kills her, he will die too.  Wait --No, she feels safe because no one will kill her because if they do-- they die too.  Nooo wait, there is safety in this somewhere...it can't just be  an illusion

let's see  bullets fly from bad guy, killing innocent people, and a good guy (who is passing by and sees the scene) shoots and hits the bad guy-- ok that is safety-- the bad guy dies after some innocents  die in fear and agony-- wondering of their loved ones-- the unsaid good byes on their stilled lips.
Well I am just thick, and dont get the trick.  The Second Amendment is our freedom to be safe by gunshot death--
So as we consider limiting machine guns, and trying to curtail the epidemic of mass murder sweeping over our country, we must consider that we have the power to make laws to stop killings.  Nothing in our Constitution requires abject stupidity in the face of slaughter.  We can ban assault weapons and limit gun ownership in ways we can agree-- by will of the people.  We do not owe more lives to the profits of gun sellers, we do not owe more lives to the myth that everyone has an unlimited right to instruments of destruction.  We owe it to ourselves and our children to prevent the killers from killing, as much as we can, as soon as we can- and to be more vigilant of the threat posed by businesses that sell deadly devices.