Social Ills are the Problem behind Guns

   It is the social ills that bring gun violence down upon us, not the guns, themselves.
   Heard a bit of the Doug Wright Show today, and he indicated social ills are the problem. He had a caller-in who said she has mental problems, and therefore chooses not to have a gun. Just because you have a right, doesn't mean you exercise it, she said.
   Doug Wright agreed, and, if I heard him correctly, said that might apply to those who have mentally ill family members and others who might be prone to using the gun. Wright mentioned something else -- was it violent movies? -- as a social ill.
  Me, I think our propensity to use the weapon is a social ill. I think too many worship the gun, in a way. The social ill comes when they they would blow away another person who would dare to rob them in their home. That is a social ill. Courts don't punish burglars with the death penalty; why should we?