'Simply too many guns': four mass shootings leave California reeling - gun owners, this is for YOU [View all]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/25/california-mass-shootings-reaction-communities

I would ask all the good guys with guns:

1) Do you really think your gun is going to protect you from someone else's? There are swords, and then there are shields. Get a home security system or a big dog. Or live 24/7 in body armor. Real life isn't like the movies! There are no quickdraw duels in the streets!
2) What gives you the right, even in self-defense, to fire bullets in a populated area? Little kids get mowed down all the time on the South Side of Chicago by ricocheted or errant bullets. Screw you if you think you have the right to walk around with the power to kill any living thing within 50 yards of yourself. You're not that special. Nobody is.
2) Wouldn't you rather be a leader, in this time of crisis, while guns - which never rot, expire, or disappear - accumulate like "forever chemicals" in our children's environment? Cut up your guns. It's not good enough to sell them. Destroy them, like the virus they are. And then tell everyone you know what you did. Tell the owner of the gun shop. Tell the mayor. Tell your mother, who didn't raise you to be a goddamn killer.

We are on track to have over a BILLION GUNS floating around in a country of 350 million by the time a preschooler graduates from high school. As a parent that is simply unacceptable.

We need leaders, gun owners! Chip out some courage from deep in your bones, and destroy your guns!

A Completely Fed-Up Parent of Gen Z