Opinion: “The Common Good of Gun Control and Covid Control”
Gun control measures and mask-wearing are both topics that are unnecessarily politicized, weaponized by those they intended to protect. Experts agree that mass shooters often purchase their guns at the last minute shortly before their attack. The gunman in the Atlanta-area spa shootings purchased a 9mm semi-automatic pistol mere hours before he used it to kill eight people on March 16. A mandatory waiting period or licensing requirement could have possibly prevented the needless death — extra steps that are a small price to pay for gun owners when weighed against the cost to human life.
But while gun control measures are debated endlessly in Congress, there is an immediate action we can all take to save lives. Wear a mask around those outside your household. I know by this late stage in the pandemic, the message feels tired. Yet according to a study by USC, half of U.S. adults still don’t wear masks when in close contact with non-household members, so clearly the message isn’t getting through.
One thing that we can all agree on, is that no one particularly enjoys wearing a mask. In the same way, some don’t enjoy a wearing bike helmet or a seatbelt. Yet we have all agreed as a society that these interventions are a minor inconvenience and worth the life-saving benefits.
Why is it that we can’t apply the same logical rationale to wearing face masks that dramatically reduce the transmission of a rapidly mutating, deathly virus? How has a piece of cloth turned into such a polarizing issue?
The tired arguments of infringements on our freedom and liberty simply don’t hold up. How can you claim that we are free if we are all just one unmasked cough from away from contracting a deadly virus? Like many Americans, I am desperate for my freedom. The freedom to reunite with close friends and family members without the fear of infecting them. But with an average of 75,000 new cases of Covid-19 a day in the US, aided by the rapidly spreading variants this will remain out of reach until more Americans commit to wearing masks.
By implementing public health measures like gun control or mask mandates, public officials are not trying to take anything away from Americans. By contrast, they are giving us the gift of life. The countries that have been so successful in eliminating in Covid-19, like Australia and New Zealand have done so by presenting a united front. Politicians from both sides of the aisle buried the hatchet to present a singular public health message focused on preventing transmission of the disease at all costs. It is time for Americans to embody the same values of unity and mask up to prevent needless deaths
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Where they is a stark difference with the Opinion that I have to Challenge and that is The Right To Keep And Bare Arms Is Our Constitutional RIGHT That Has Been Held Up But the Supreme Court. Now we move to the Second Issue as In the Mask Mandate is Unconstitutional but that has not been fought and settled in Court so Until it is Challenged and Ruled on them the Radicals will continue to try and Force the Mask Mandate on Us. Now We get to Common Sense and there lies the difference in The Mask Issues….
Is this a joke? Things like tyrannical mask mandates that have no basis in science are the reason I signed up for this site. Then the first article I read on this site is from someone who wants us to submit to the tyrannical government AND take our guns?! The insanity never ends
Exactly. I also just signed up and this is the first thing I read. I wanted to immediatly cancel my subscription thinking I had made a mistake. But I saw that this article was just this idiots opinion. I will reserve judgement on cancelling my subscription for now. If there is much more crap like this on this site, I’m gone! Just because somebody has a PhD after their name doesn’t mean they have any common sense (probably the opposite – the more letters after the name, the less common sense).
I agree! I was thinking the EXACT SAME THING!!! I thought this was about getting our freedoms back!! And, by the way……if you look at the REAL science, masks DO NOT stop the spread of the coronavirus!!!
Leaving this Idiot’s article on you website will definitely deter people’s support……..they simply will not trust that this is what it claims to be. And right now……people are afraid to trust because they’ve been lied to and controlled by our government!!!!
The opinion writer seems to love stupid analogies, so perhaps he will enjoy pondering this one: Mandating masks does not work in exactly the same way that posting the following sign does not work: “This is a Gun-Free Zone. Gun crimes and mass shootings are prohibited on these premises”
In fact, as supported by actual data, not hearsay and appeals to “common sense”, covid-19 deaths have no correlation to mask mandates and other draconian restrictions. Florida and Texas are doing much better, thank you, than New York and California.
Not only are masks useless for preventing deaths, but they are demonstrably harmful, as noted by Stanford University researchers and the CDC, in separate studies:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7680614/
https://blogs.cdc.gov/niosh-science-blog/2020/06/10/ppe-burden/
As for gun crimes, most occur in dense urban areas with the most severe restrictions on gun rights.
I just signed, but did I sign up to the wrong site? What the hell is this?? How is claptrap even allowed on here? Is this not what we are fighting? This was the first thing I looked at after signing up, and I was discouraged, to say the least. I am for 1st amendment rights, and this facts-free idiot to repeat the demonic talking points, but, here? Really?
Exactly what I was thinking!!! I forwarded the interview with Dr Mercola to most everyone on my messenger list, and I’m pretty sure that when they see this article they will feel just like I do!! They will wonder if they been duped once again!! Please, make a section for people to share their opinions and keep it separate from the home page!!!!! Make sure it’s stated that “these are members’ personal opinions”
Everyone’s opinion has a right to be aired, even though I DO NOT AGREE with anything this gentleman wrote! We are fighting censorship, but that also includes allowing opposite points of view. AnywY, best to KNOW YOUR ENEMY and what he is thinking.