Not now.
Now is not the time to talk about gun control, because the blood of
58 people murdered by a gunman in Las Vegas, Nevada has barely
congealed, and we should
wait for their families to mourn.
Yesterday wasn’t the time to talk about gun control either, because a 14-year-old boy was
shot and killed after someone brought a gun to a fight.
Two days before that wasn’t a good time to talk about gun control either, because
four men were shot in New Orleans.
Nor was September 24th a good time to discuss gun control, because there were four mass shootings, in
Maryland,
New Jersey,
Tennessee and
New York.
If you assumed September 23rd was a good time to bring up the subject of gun control, you'd be wrong, what with mass shootings in both
Illinois and
California.
Trying to start a conversation about gun control three days before that would’ve been out of the question, since five people were shot in
Gary, Indiana.
You could not have discussed gun control two days prior to that, because four people were shot in
Michigan and another five in
Virginia.
The previous day, eight people were shot in
South Carolina, so it wouldn’t have been a good idea to discuss gun control that day either.
And you can forget your gun control debate on September 13th, since there were four mass shootings, in
Washington,
Tennessee, and
two in
Pennsylvania.
In the days preceding, there were further mass shootings in
Louisiana,
Alabama,
Texas and
Illinois, so there really was no time for a debate on gun control.
And that was just September.
So far in 2017, there have been an average of 9 mass shootings every ten days in the US. I hope you appreciate there is
never a good time to talk about gun control.
