A single man armed with an assault rifle felled eleven well-armed, well-trained police officers in Dallas this past Thursday, 7 July 2016, five of them fatally. Dozens of policemen and policewomen were at the ready to quell trouble in a potentially tense Black Lives Matter rally, and still the carnage happened.
If we’re supposed to believe the NRA and their political champions that more good men with guns is the answer to Sandy Hook massacres of first graders and educators, the question begs, just how many good men with guns does it take? Are we truly to expect better from educators while they and their children are being baptized in a hail of high powered bullets?