Here’s The One Question ‘Guns Everywhere’ Advocates Can Never Answer — Ever

Sarah Wood
2 min readAug 8, 2019
Photo by Sebastian Pociecha on Unsplash

The gun debate isn’t new. It’s been going on for as long as anyone can remember. One side of the debate wants reasonable restrictions and regulations to make all of society safer, and the other side believes having a gun in every hand will make society safer. However, there’s one question every pro-guns everywhere, open carry advocate can’t answer — ever.

How do we discern a person who is open carrying from a person about to open fire?

It seems to be a pretty reasonable question, and one they should know the answer to if they are correct in their assumption having more guns makes us safer.

Here’s the thing, we don’t know the difference, and we won’t know until someone actually opens fire, and by then it’s too late.

I’ve run into grief on social media surrounding a tweet I wrote that went viral.

Is it crass? You bet your ass. But it got the point across and got people talking on both sides.

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Sarah Wood

Writer & Satirist. Creator @FreeWoodPost. Sax Player. Lover of Art. Hiker of trails. Boston fan. Host of @SWvarietyhour — Writer for hire. sarahwoodwriter.com