Life is negotiable?

"[T]he Atlanta courthouse attack that left four murdered; the Wisconsin church shooting, where seven were murdered, and Monday's high-school shooting in Minnesota, where nine were murdered.... All three attacks took place in areas where gun possession by those who did the attack as well as civilians generally was already banned -- so-called 'gun-free safe zones.' ... Would you feel safer putting a sign in front of your home saying 'This Home is a Gun-Free Zone'? ... As with many other gun laws, law-abiding citizens, not would-be criminals, would obey the sign. Instead of creating a safe zone for victims, it leaves victims defenseless and creates a safe zone for those intent on causing harm." --John Lott

I continue to be amazed that otherwise intelligent people point to tragedies like those above as if they were proof that more gun control laws are necessary. In fact, they say just the opposite to me. If all of the victims were armed, these events would probably not have happened, or at least the outcome would have been more equitable.

More to the point, it is the constant drumbeat that is the culture of death that I feel is to blame. If we continue to whittle away at the heart of the very young, the very old, or the very ill; as if their lives were merely "negotiable", then how long will it be before nobody's life is worth a plug nickel?

No, I respect life, which is also why I respect the second amendment.