by Katey LaFrance

About the author: Katey LaFrance is a contributing columnist to Liberal Opinion Week.

Who could read or watch the news about the Springfield, Oregon, school shootings, without tears in their eyes; without utter dismay and outrage in their hearts; without feeling an urgent and intense demand for immediate disarmament of our nation, as the school’s wrestling coach, Gary Bowden, has called for"

Guns are indiscriminate. They have no consciousness which cares whose lives they end. Guns are made to kill. That is the main reason they are manufactured: to take down that trophy buck, that killer wolf, or, in some peoples’ minds: the enemy, meaning anyone who wrongs them.

Advocates of gun ownership often cite statistics of automobile deaths versus death from guns...