The right to live and gun rights aren't opposites
By Tom Knighton | 4:30 PM on January 28, 2023
In the wake of a mass shooting, gun rights inevitably come under assault. That’s certainly true now following events in California. As we have seen, there is a seemingly unending supply of politicians and op-ed writers calling for restrictions on our Second Amendment rights.
It would be comical if it weren’t for the fact that they’re so serious about it.
Yet a recent LA Times op-ed seems to suggest that there’s some balance between our gun rights and others’ right to live (and the issues with that phrase could be a post in and of itself).
I say that in part because the title is, “Will 19 dead in California alter the balance between your right to a gun and my right to live?”
https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2023/01/28/gun-rights-opposites-n66671
