The Kind-Hearted Smart Aleck

In light of the Newton, Connecticut tragedy late last year, the country has debated guns more frequently than Snoop Dogg has gotten high. While I think it was about time the country stopped seemingly ignoring gun violence and started talking about the issue, in the end, I don't think the majority of such conversations have been very productive. While I definitely do support some gun control measures, so the NRA can label me as a "crazy, left-wing, anti-gun, circus freak" or whatever they'd like, I do try to understand others' arguments, no matter how different from mine they may be. However, when it has come to far-right anti-gun control arguments, I've only run into two: 1) "Guns don't kill people; people kill people" and 2) "The 2nd Amendment of the Constitution says, 'A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.'" I've w...