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James Holmes, 24, stands accused of opening fire Friday in a theater in Aurora, Colorado showing the new Batman movie, killing 12 people and injuring 58.<\/p><\/div>\n

By Tim Arnold<\/a><\/strong>, guest commentary<\/em><\/p>\n

July 25, 2012<\/p>\n

The massacre in the Aurora movie theater should surprise no one. After Virginia Tech, after Columbine, after Jordan Lee Loughner\u2019s assault on Gabby Giffords, it should surprise no one. And that\u2019s just the latest. Count on it, it\u2019s going to happen again.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve created a perfect storm for random violence. The blame reaches far and wide, and pundits\u2019 psychobabble, legitimate and otherwise, is already raining down around us, again: Societal permissiveness; violence in the media; video games; parental acquiescence; the pressure to succeed; ultra-conservative dogm; promiscuity; movie madness; Penn State; digital replacement of personal relationships; Heavy Metal music, etc, etc.<\/p>\n

All of it \u2013 and none of it – true. And one more thing: the absurdly easy access to guns, enabled by champions of the loose interpretations of \u201cthe right to bear arms.\u201d And the unwillingness of, well, anybody, to confront the National Rifle Association.<\/p>\n

All of it, uniquely American. Who to blame? You, me, Republicans, Tea Partiers, Democrats. All of us.<\/p>\n

The statistics are mind numbing, and undeniable. There\u2019s nearly one gun in America for each one of its citizens. Of the estimated 300 million firearms, owned by some 70 to 80 million adults, 100 million are handguns (\u201cFirearms Fact Card, 2010. National Rifle Association\u201d). We lead the civilized world in homicides by firearms (Nationmaster.com\/ crime statistics).<\/p>\n

The AR-15, one of the weapons the Aurora suspect carried, is a lightweight, air-cooled, gas-operated, magazine-fed semi-automatic rifle. Automatic variants have a three-position rotating selective fire switch, allowing the operator to select between three modes: safe, semi-automatic and either automatic or three round burst, depending on the model (Wikipedia, AR-15<\/a>). It was banned and compatible magazines were limited to ten rounds in 1994, but all of it rescinded 10 years later by a Republican-led congress under pressure from the NRA. Today a legal AR-15 is capable of firing 800 rounds per minute, and a drum magazine with a 100 round capacity \u2013 which the Aurora suspect carried – is also legal in most states. In fact you can buy an AR-15 online with minimum qualifications.<\/p>\n

This is America\u2019s weapon of mass destruction. It is designed for one purpose, and one purpose only: to kill a lot of people. There is no reason for it to exist, much less be owned, outside the military.<\/p>\n

But it does, and is, in America.<\/p>\n

Equally unique to America are the arguments defending such madness, including:<\/p>\n

The Second Amendment<\/a> guarantees the \u201cright for individuals to bear arms.” Except there\u2019s an equally compelling argument that the founding fathers intended the amendment to provide for states\u2019 rights to mount armed militias. As ratified by the States and authenticated by Thomas Jefferson, Secretary of State: \u201cA 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.\u201d This clause in the Bill of Rights is subject to as much interpretation as the Bible \u2013 and those that chose to take either one literally reveal a rigidity unfit for today\u2019s world.<\/p>\n

Banning assault weapons signals the beginning of a slippery slope toward an unconstitutional denial of our right to bear arms. Did banning the \u201cF\u201d word on network television lead to rampant censorship, or denial of freedom of speech? Did removing the Ten Commandments display from the Arkansas State House lead to reckless denial of religious freedoms? And so it goes.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s so many guns already out there, many of them owned by bad guys, that the only way to protect ourselves is to, well, own one. And so we do, one for every citizen in the country. But some studies show that \u201cin homes with guns, the homicide of a household member is almost 3 times more likely to occur than in homes without guns\u201d (\u201cGun Control Facts<\/a>,\u201d by James D Agresti and Reid K. Smith. Just Facts, Sept 13, 2010).<\/p>\n

We impose speed limits to make the highways safer.<\/p>\n

We require seat belts.<\/p>\n

We legislate fuel efficiencies to combat pollution.<\/p>\n

We remove sugary drinks from grade schools to confront childhood obesity.<\/p>\n

We regulate medications in an attempt to mitigate abuse.<\/p>\n

But we do not regulate gun ownership. And the damage done by guns is more obvious, more linear and less forgivable.<\/p>\n

Like the single raison d\u2019\u00eatre of an AR-15, there\u2019s one reason politicians don\u2019t address gun control \u2013 they want to be elected more than anything else. Their need to hold office supersedes ethics and masks an appalling lack of courage. It\u2019s why Mitt Romney has changed his mind on every significant issue. Republicans are beholden to the NRA and gun rights advocates. Tellingly, nearly twice as many Republicans own guns as Democrats (41% vs 23% – with 27% Independent. \u201cGun Ownership and Use in America<\/a>, Joseph Carroll, Gallup Nationwide Poll, Nov 22, 2005,\u201d citing a contrast that has no doubt increased since then). According to the Federal Election Commission, a full 85% of all financial contributions from gun rights advocates went to Republicans in the two decades from 1990 to 2010 (“Gun Rights: Long-Term Contribution Trends.” Center for Responsive Politics<\/a>. Accessed September 2, 2010).<\/p>\n

Isn\u2019t there something in Romney\u2019s \u201cdeep-seated\u201d religious faith that moves him to support even some form of limited gun control?<\/p>\n

No matter; it seems neither party is willing to confront this issue head on.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m with New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg (\u201ca leader in the search for sensible answers about guns<\/a>\u201d \u2013 NY Times Editorial page, July 21, 2012), who said, \u201cMaybe it\u2019s time the two people who want to be president of the United States stand up and tell us what they\u2019re going to do about it.”<\/p>\n

Louie Gohmert, Republican Representative from Texas, drew a bizarre connection between the horror in Colorado and \u201congoing attacks on Judeo-Christian beliefs\u201d (NY Times, Editorial, July 21, 2012). He also said this, \u201cIt does make me wonder, you know, with all those people in the theater, was there nobody (else) that was carrying? That could have stopped this guy more quickly?\u201d (Colorado is one of 38 \u201cshall issue\u201d states, meaning that if a person passes certain minimal requirements, then the state must issue them a concealed weapons \u201ccarry\u201d permit).<\/p>\n

But think about what Gohmert and millions of other NRA sycophants would have: a fully armed populace, armed and ready to defend themselves against all threats, real or imagined. And an armed threat in a movie theater far exceeds the gray area provided for in Florida\u2019s perverse \u201cStand Your Ground<\/a>\u201d law. It\u2019s there, it\u2019s real, and, until he starts firing, he\u2019s legal under America\u2019s right to bear arms and Colorado\u2019s right to carry concealed weapons. But, so would other carriers. Imagine: the \u201cJoker,\u201d as the Aurora wacko called himself, opens fire with his AR-15. Instantly, another carrier responds with, say, a Glock \u2013 a popular semi-automatic pistol from Austria, also legal, also available online, and capable of firing 33 rounds from a high-capacity magazine. (The \u201cJoker\u2019s\u201d carrying one of these, too). He misses \u2013 but he\u2019s got 32 rounds left, and continues firing. Then a half-dozen more legal carriers engage, firing at, who? The Joker? Or, the first defender \u2013 or each other? – because, after all, how would they know, there in the dark of the movie theater, who was who?<\/p>\n

And so ensues America at its finest. More movie goers rise to the occasion, all legally armed and carrying, pickling off thousands of rounds of semi-automatic ammo in the dark, scoring hits, misses, wreaking havoc, killing \u2026 other movie goers, their children, the ushers and each other. And in short order, there\u2019s but a single soul left standing, having exercised his or her right to bear arms and defend his own American self.<\/p>\n

Alas, he\u2019s mortally wounded, too.<\/p>\n

A metaphor for what\u2019s to come. This is what we\u2019ve created.<\/p>\n

Only in America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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