America Needs to See the Reality of Assault Rifle Murders

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America Needs to See the Reality of Assault Rifle Murders
by Mitchell Zimmerman | June 3, 2022 - 5:46am
— from OtherWords

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The families of the Uvalde victims will make their own painful decisions regarding the remains of their children. They owe us nothing — it is we who owe them our shamed apologies for failing to protect their children from the now well-known danger of mass murder.

No one can demand the right to use photographs of the victims.

But children aren’t the only ones whose bodies have been torn apart and rendered unrecognizable by modern assault weapons. Photographs from both wartime and the home front can doubtless be found to illustrate the costs of so-called “gun rights.”

These disturbing images could ignite the public conscience. They could also be put before gun buyers themselves.

A number of states force women exercising their constitutional right to abortion to look at fetal sonograms before ending their pregnancy. What if states required anyone who wants to buy an assault rifle, or other semi-automatic weapon, to first see photos or films that show what such weapons do to human bodies?

Some buyers would no doubt harden their hearts and persuade themselves they must have a weapon of war to defend their homes from an attack by imaginary hordes or other fictitious threats — or to overthrow a government so tyrannical as to consider regulating firearms.

But perhaps some would reconsider whether they really need this kind of weapon to hunt or engage in target shooting.

There is no Second Amendment right to protection from reality.