Your average gun owner will never point a firearm at a living person. Ever. They won't need to, and since they're generally lawful people, they aren't going to do anything to hurt a soul.
But a site called the Good Men Project seems to feel otherwise.
Now, let's understand that the Good Men Project is supposed to be a site that addresses masculinity by basically saying that if you want to be a good man, you have to be a leftist turdwaffle. To steal from Monty Python, "'Tis a silly place."
The problem is that this time, they're being very specific as to who is to blame for so-called gun violence, and it's you and me.
However, there is a certain class of people that merit a greater share of the blame for the mass casualty events our communities have endured. For lack of a more encompassing term let’s call them, “gun owners”. As well, we must acknowledge that gun owners are largely responsible (by commission and omission) for the constant blood letting since Sandy Hook (as of 16 Aug. 2025 41,023 people have perished since the 14 Dec. 2012 Newtown, Conn. massacre).
In spite of the evidence conveying the hazard of firearms ownership, it’s still useless to debate gun control. At best, it has resulted in a stalemate over background checks. Even gun control proponents admit this measure of accountability would not have stopped someone like[Newtown killer's name redacted] from carrying out the slaughter at Sandy Hook. A background check would not have prevented five-year-old Kristian Sparks from the unintentional slaying of his two-year-old sister, Caroline. Again, guns don’t kill people; but it so happens that the relatives of gun owners do.
Since we are fully convinced of the human culpability when a firearm tragedy strikes, it stands to reason that this is where the effort to curb gun violence should focus. Rather than trying to contain or limit weaponry, our attention should fix upon the gun owning community. Did you know that 77 per cent of the massacres that have taken place in the U.S. between 1966 and 2019 were committed by someone who had legal access to the firearm used in the crime? So, why not increase gun owner accountability going forward — especially to other gun owners?
The author has a brain-dead idea that if you take the phrase "well-regulated militia" to mean what he says it means, and require all gun owners to meet regularly, then gun owners would keep one another accountable.
In other words, it's our fault, and we should be the ones blamed because people we didn't know did some things, so he wants to make it so we all know one another, and then they can really blame us when something happens.
First, let's understand that "massacres" is a nonsense term in this context, not because it doesn't have a definition, but because he's using it wrong. Those "massacres" are mass shootings. There are massacres that happen each year that aren't the result of someone shooting people, which aren't factored into that statistic, such as the one that happened 366 days ago, as of this writing.
So, we see, the author already doesn't know what the hell he's talking about.
Further, we also know that despite his hysteria, mass shootings account for only a tiny fraction of all intentional homicides with a firearm. Most of the others happen with a stolen or otherwise illegally obtained gun.
That's the lion's share of gun-related homicides, and does the author think his idiotic proposal would do anything about them?
Of course, he's also not taking into account what will happen when you undermine decades of stigmatization efforts and rather than isolate gun owners, you force them--how, he doesn't say, but it wouldn't happen without registration or something akin to that, which is never happening without a fight--to hang out. Suddenly, they know they're not alone, and those regular, legally-mandated get-togethers will just foster a deeper commitment to the Second Amendment.
In other words, I don't think he'd like what would happen if he could get his way.
He won't, though, so instead, I just point and laugh between fits of being pissed that he's blaming us for the actions of people we had no control over.
