AK-47 assault rifle. (Christine Villegas/Borderzine.com)

Gun-control debate: True and false equivalencies

MIMBRES, N.M. – Every child has a nose for sniffing out hypocrisy and a heart for fairness.  Maybe we become more vulnerable to hypocritical arguments as we age. Otherwise, politicians and lobbyists would be exposed as emperors without clothes in a heartbeat. Then they would be shamed and silenced. Or, maybe they continue to believe that if they keep repeating an untruth often and loudly, it will magically become true. And it seems to have become so with a segment of our population that is suspicious of government, any government, but especially government led by a black man.