Guns Kill: The Same Old Story

Gun regulation saves lives. This is not a contentious point

Guns kill people. That’s literally what they were designed to do

This article was originally written in 2017, for the Las Vegas massacre. It is a tragic reality of the situation in the US that I can change two or three words in an entire piece about gun control and it makes no difference whatsoever. The reality is the same: guns kill. Gun control saves lives. This is not a contentious point.

There’s been another mass shooting in the US, this time, tragically, in a school in Kentucky. It is, as ever, horrifying. The names change, but the story stays the same: disaffected child comes to school with a gun, opens fire. Children die.

There are no words to describe the tragedy.

And terribly, sadly, awfully, there have been no words to describe the tragedies that preceded it. The US experiences up to one mass shooting per day depending on which definition of mass shooting that you use. That’s an immense figure, no matter which way you slice it.

That’s a lot of tragedies. Source: Vox

Tens of tragedies a month.

Hundreds of tragedies a year.