David Frum effectively demonstrates that the mantra of “responsible gun ownership” is meaningless if the only judgment of who is irresponsible occurs once they’ve accidentally shot someone.
Here’s the blunt fact: for all the talk about “responsible gun ownership,” guns are easily available to everybody, responsible or not. It’s an empty compliment even to refer to “responsible gun owners” – many of them are people who through good luck simply have not had their irresponsibility catch up with them yet, as so tragically happened yesterday to the Wanko family.