On CNN's 'State of the Nation', two of the people on the panel were former Senator Rick Santorum and former mayor and close in race for Governor of Florida, Andrew Gillum.
Santorum gave the NRA's stock in trade answer to the gun crisis: 'guns don't kill people, people kill people.'
Gillum immediately responded, "that's like saying opioids don't kill people, the people who take opioids kill people."
Brilliant. So brilliant I wish I had thought of it. So brilliant I'll be using it over and again.
As I've said before and will doubtless have to say again, if the guy in Sante Fe and the guy in Ohio--or Vas Vegas or Sandy Hook or Parkland...on and on--hadn't had a gun they would have been lucky to kill one person before they were subdued by the crowd.
People may 'want to kill people', but without guns they wouldn't be very successful.
Guns and opioids kill people.
Well done Mayor Gillum!
Well done!!!
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