You gotta be kidding me!

Apparently they have the solution in Texas to kids dying in classroom shootings: Train third graders to administer first aid to gunshot wounds! Because, you know, we can't infringe on the right to own guns! Instead let's add to the trauma of young kids having active shooter drills by having them undergo training to treat gunshot wounds!

Meanwhile, we recall millions of airbags that might malfunction because about a dozen people have died from them over the last five-plus years! And we recalled some other thing the other day because about twenty-five people have died from it (I forget what the product was now, but you get the point). And we recall food products on a fairly regular basis, close down restaurants for health infractions, and the list goes on. And consumers sue, and win, on a fairly regular basis against manufacturers and retail food establishments for defective and/or dangerous products.

But, we have a product that is known to cause death, injury, and trauma on a scale that we can't even imagine, yet all we can offer is active shooter drills and first-aid training? It's against the law to sue gun manufacturers. We offer conceal and carry permits in many states without training. We allow known mentally unstable people to purchase weapons. We don't even require that households with young children store their weapons in a secure place.

You can't legally purchase cigarettes or vaping products until you are eighteen, but you can have a weapon that kills others, as well as yourself (via suicide) at pretty much any age (depending on the state). We allow a weapons ban law to expire that was shown to statistically reduce mass shootings, but we raise the legal drinking age to 21 from 18 because too many young intoxicated drivers were killing people (a good move that I applaud).

People, where are our priorities?

As a nation we are like the guy who fatally shot his girlfriend because she got an abortion!

I just don't get it…