"What’s actually happening is that the American people have largely come to the conclusion that freedom shouldn’t be a casualty of some madman’s wrath. They blame individuals for their decisions and want them punished accordingly."

Via Fox News:

This week anyone who is anyone in the gun business is in Las Vegas for the Shooting, Hunting, Outdoor Trade (SHOT) Show. More than 60,000 people are gathered from all over America and the world.

Attendees are crowding inside the Sands Expo Center, right on the Vegas Strip, to make their way down more than 12.5 miles of aisles built like little city blocks, all with gun stores filling them corner to corner in this annual show.

This isn’t a consumer show. People are here to buy and sell the millions of guns and related products that will stock stores around America this year.

The show has been in Vegas every year for some time, and looks likely to stay. This might surprise a few, because the worst mass shooting in U.S. history took place in the city last October.

Looking around Vegas, it’s obvious the blame hasn’t settled on these people who design, make and sell firearms and ammunition.

If you think this is the cold indifference of gun owners on display – or perhaps evidence of a public too burned out to care any longer about the issues related to guns – then you’ve swallowed a little too much of the narrative you get from CNN, network news shows and the big newspapers.

What’s actually happening is that the American people have largely come to the conclusion that freedom shouldn’t be a casualty of some madman’s wrath. They blame individuals for their decisions and want them punished accordingly. That’s how our constitutional republic was designed to function.

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