Do not be puzzled by the first few paragraphs about why this article is posted here. Read to the end.
In a recent series in the Connecticut Mirror, Riju Das delivers many cogent arguments for more gun control, accurately pointing out the number of senseless mass killings, murders and accidental deaths in the United States caused by the failure of the legislatures to enact what he perceives to be sensible reforms.
But he neglects to posit a convincing argument countering the reason our founding fathers enshrined gun ownership in our Constitution: as a protection against a tyrannical government. Gun owners do not enter box cars without a fight.