Tag: responsibility
Why Guns Aren’t the Problem: A Response to Gun-Control Activists
Posted on April 5, 2018 in Public Policy by Nathan Cherry
In each of the examples above we place the blame where it belongs, on the person using the object. How is it we don’t do the same when discussing guns? It seems some in our culture want to place blame on anything other than the individual pulling the trigger. Somehow, a person that decides to start shooting other people is absolved of their responsibility for that decision and all responsibility is placed squarely in the hands of…the gun?
But we must take notice of an exception to this strange denial of responsibility. When someone commits an act of terror, we blame the person.