Wednesday, May 13, 2015

It was not a Great Victory for Gun Rights, but a Terrible Tragedy

   I lament, yet, the loss of Christian Chichia. It has been now more than two weeks now since his death. Was this but a drunk who stumbled to the door of a Second Amendment advocate, and was shot dead? Bless him where he now is, for though it is not good to be drunk, and not good to try to get into the home of another person, his death was tragic.
   But, rather than mourning his death, many, when they hear the story, only hail what happened as a victory for Second Amendment gun rights.
   As a people, how far do we take our gun rights? I fear for our values, if we see victory in this rather than tragedy, I wonder but what our love of guns is greater than our desire to preserve human life. What is the value of our justice, that we should say justice was done?
   Yes, Chichia was not so intoxicated that he was unable to climb to the second story of the home. But, he was out of it enough that he did not know he was at the wrong home, thinking it was his own, as the units in the housing development look the same. His roommates had told him that if he were ever locked out, to crawl up a level and come in through the second-floor balcony. He thought he was doing that, and was trying the door when the homeowner cracked the door to talk to him. Chichia just barged on in at that point, and the homeowner shot him dead.
   A great victory for gun rights? I think not. Rather, it shows that while Second Amendment justice  can be a good thing, it can also awry.
 

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