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I have a friend in Scotland who couldn’t understand how Americans could be so flippant about the ownership of guns and how we can use a 200-year-old “freedom” to rationalize the ownership and use of military-style weapons. My reply at the time was that we need that freedom to keep us free from an oppressive government.

Then she reminded me of the massacre at the kindergarten in Dunblane, Scotland. Then the tragedy in Jonesboro happened. On March 1 of this year a strict ban on most types of guns went into effect in Britain. They are still free in every other aspect of life. Can we say the same about ourselves?