I Am Tired of Your Gun Culture

Some things are just too hard to figure out with our small people brains.
Lawn darts killed three children between 1970 and 1994, and as such, they were made illegal in the United States and Canada.

On 19 December 1988, all lawn darts were banned from sale in the United States by the Consumer Product Safety Commission after they were responsible for the deaths of three children since 1970.  In 1989, they were also banned in Canada.
In 1982, some nutjob poisioned  some Tylenol capsules.  As a result, we can’t open a bottle of pills or a beverage without going through a major operation, even though authorities never identified who was responsible.

The Chicago Tylenol murders were a series of poisoning deaths resulting from drug tampering in the Chicago metropolitan area in 1982. The victims had all taken Tylenol-branded acetaminophen capsules that had been laced with potassium cyanide.  A total of seven people died in the original poisonings, with several more deaths in subsequent copycat crimes.

Cigarettes kill us (supposedly) with second-hand smoke.  As a result, people can’t smoke in public places because that endangers the general public, although not immediately.
Meanwhile, children are being shot and killed in schools across America, and little or nothing is being done about it. If cigarettes, lawn darts, or Tylenol had the political power of the National Rifle Association, (why isn’t it the National Gun Association?)  we’d still be able to smoke in public, open a bottle of pills, or play a game on our lawn without violating the law.

As it is, there is a dedicated band of gun nuts (yes, nuts) who feel like our Constitution allows them the right (Right) to kill people with their weapon of choice, while other less offensive weapons have already been deemed illegal by whatever law you want to apply.

Your right to form a militia has been replaced by our military, and your right to "bear arms" has been replaced by the military’s ability to do the same thing in lieu of your living room.  It’s simple, really.
The Second Amendment is an antiquated idea whose time has come and gone. It is time for the NRA and their financial supporters to realize this, and come to the conclusion that our so-called rights infringe on others’ rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness - which I also know is in that Constitution that you so heartily support.