EDITORIAL —  Not all deserve to have guns

It has happened yet again, another school shooting in the U.S.

This time it happened in a Catholic school in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where an 8-year-old and a 10-year-old were killed and 17 others wounded while attending Mass in a church at the school.

The shooter, armed with a rifle, a shotgun, and a pistol, fired at the windows of the church, hitting the fatalities and the casualties. He then went to the back of the church where he shot himself dead.

Police said the suspect was in his 20s and did not have an extensive criminal history.

We see what will happen next. After the crying, the blame game will begin as those who want stricter gun control will again clash with those who don’t.

Yes, it’s true what the U.S. National Rifle Association says: “guns don’t kill people, people kill people.” But the issue has always been that not all those who have guns deserve them.

This still seems to be an issue in a country where second amendment rights allow them to bear arms.

Like we said in an earlier editorial about a school shooting way, way, way back --because there have been so many of those already-- there was a time when people in the U.S. could and should bear arms. We are talking about the days of the frontier pioneers, the Old West, and the periods when public safety wasn’t certain.

Having a gun then was practical for safety because law enforcement wasn’t yet an organized national establishment many could rely on. That is no longer the case now with the U.S. having a strong and reliable police force one only needs to call.

There is also a reason why not everyone should have a gun today; people are becoming more radicalized, with some willing to act on such beliefs, even through violence.

Until U.S. authorities realize that not all people deserve to have guns, even though they insist on the right to bear arms, we predict there will be more school shootings to come and more children lying dead where they shouldn’t.