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The National Rifle Association, in a show of blatant disrespect for victims of gun-facilitated crime, held a gun-owner rally to support NRA-friendly politicians this week in Tucson, Arizona.

Earlier this week, a University of Arizona student shot and killed three people in Tucson. And, in case Charlton Heston was unaware, a sniper also killed about a dozen people in the Washington, D.C. area.

NRA Chief Executive Officer Wayne LaPierre said cancelling the event in light of the university shootings would be equivalent to cancelling a car convention because someone used a car to kill people.

This example helps elucidate the fundamental flaw in logic the NRA and its supporters continuously use as a defense.

True, anything can be used to kill. But most objects have other purposes; a car, for example, is intended for transportation. A gun has no other purpose than killing. Some people like to shoot deer, but you don’t really need a semi-automatic military-like machine gun to bring one down.

Self-defense? Well, why not have more police who can exercise sound control over guns rather than disbursing them in greater quantities to the public at large? It only makes things worse when more guns are available for us to need to “defend” against.

But as long as the NRA has politicians in its pockets, gun-lauding will continue even in the face of cold-blooded murder.

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