It is tragic how the gunman got into the school and killed all those children and teachers. I am sure Sen. Johnson and other Republicans wish there was a way to address the issue without threatening the income of the weapons manufacturers. This might be considered part of the ‘military/industrial complex.’ They are all in the same racket, so to speak.

I know that there is something being bandied about about the second amendment and ‘compensating,’ I think there is more going on here.

I was going to write about how they are all about decreasing the human population of the world, but that is too cynical and outlandish, even if true. I do think there are too many people in the world, but that is another issue. Their actions speak like that is what they are trying to do, though. In fact, their words are saying one thing, but their actions are saying another. It is hypocritical for them to ‘keep the families and friends of the victims in our thoughts and prayers,’ then do nothing about it. They do not care about the people affected by gun violence, they care about getting reelected, so they do not buck the National Rifle Association. The manufacturers of guns do not care how the product is used, just that they sell more. In an interview in 2017 (Forbes), Marty Daniel pooh-poohed the idea of common sense gun laws, “Terms like ‘common sense’ come from people whose only goal is to take our guns away,…” In other words, we should not be trying to control guns.

Consider that a saw does not care if your finger is there and gets cut, it is doing what it was made to do. Likewise, a company does not care how it’s products are used, just that they are being sold, and the stockholder’s equity (return on investment) is increased, and this is why Mr. Daniel and Republicans do not want restrictive gun laws – it will hurt the bottom line of the gun makers. But this is also why we have humans deciding how things are done, like environmental, or worker safety laws. Because companies are concerned with only the bottom line, not the human cost of any part of what they do, humans regulate the companies so there is some way to make the companies be proper citizens of the community. Otherwise there is no moral or ethical backstop to what companies or the people controlling them will do.

Just another example of companies or the people controlling them ignoring the human cost of doing business.