Left to my own devices

Today is the New Hampshire primary, the second state to vote on (among other things) who it wants for president in the 2020 election cycle, at least at the partisan level. Those of us who care about such things will be awaiting the primary results after polls close tonight. Bernie Sanders will very likely win the state, which wouldn't be unexpected, as he won it four years ago, and it neighbors his home state of Vermont, so something would be wrong if he didn't win. Pete Buttigieg will likely place second which, as a Buttigieg supporter, I'm fine with. I still don't think he'll do as well in Nevada and South Carolina (and beyond), but that's for another day.

Something I have very little tolerance for is the gun control debate. While it's fairly obvious that the people (a vast majority of whom are men) who commit the mass atrocities that we've become so unfortunately used to over the years have mental health issues, it also can't be ignored that guns have most often been their weapon of choice. There's a reason for this. Guns, more than any other weapon save a bomb of some sort, can inflict the most harm in the shortest amount of time. Some will argue that we can kill each other with things other than guns. They will say that weapons of death can be knives, stones, our own bare hands, fireplace pokers, matches and gasoline, etc. All true. But the aforementioned items can be used for purposes other than killing. There is no other use for a gun than to kill or maim. None. A gun is not created for a certain task, and people just happen to also use them for destruction. A gun is made to destroy.