There’s a Facebook slogan floating around, “If we make guns illegal, then nobody will get shot anymore. That’s how we stopped everybody from doing drugs.”

There’s another, “A gun is a tool, no better or no worse than any other tool: an axe, a shovel or anything. A gun is as good or as bad as the man using it.”

These are essentially just bumper stickers – slogans just a little more wordy than the most overused slogan of all time:

“Guns don’t kill people, people kill people.”

This statement is accurate in the case of Dylann Roof, the man accused of a shooting spree that left nine people dead, including the pastor, at a historic black church last week in South Carolina.

Along with racist-filled rants, the 21-year-old included on a website photos of himself burning an American flag, taking aim with a pistol and posing proudly at sites connected to the Confederacy. He responded to the shooting of Trayvon Martin – the black Florida teen whose shooting death came at the hands of George Zimmerman, who was acquitted, amidst huge protests.

“At this moment I realized that something was very wrong,” Roof allegedly wrote on the website. “How could the news be blowing up the Trayvon Martin case while hundreds of these black on White murders got ignored?”

“I have no choice,” was his hate-filled message. “I am not in the position to, alone, go into the ghetto and fight. I chose Charleston because it is most historic city in my state, and at one time had the highest ratio of blacks to Whites in the country. We have no skinheads, no real KKK, no one doing anything but talking on the internet. Well someone has to have the bravery to take it to the real world, and I guess that has to be me.”

In the wake, President Obama is calling for, and in fact, demanding more gun restrictions, and the fight for America’s Second Amendment rights is again at the forefront.

America, Obama said in an attempt to sway public outcry, is “awash with easily accessible guns.”

He also touched on the fact America is awash with hate and racism, which is the very reason we need to hold firm to the Second Amendment.

“The apparent motivations of the shooter remind us that racism remains a blight that we have to combat together. We have made great progress but we have to be vigilant because it still lingers,” Obama said.

Here’s the real issue: it is far too easy to blame guns… to blame weapons… to blame drugs, and far more difficult to blame people. It is far more difficult to continue to increase mental health awareness and continue to fight good vs. evil, lending support to our law enforcement to keep us safe, lending support to the Second Amendment so that good people can protect themselves from evil.

Roof’s own uncle has called him a “monster,” and his friends “pure evil.”

Roof received a .45-calibur gun for his birthday and used it to kill nine people in the racially-motivated attack.

On Sunday, somewhere, a dad received a skeet shooting gun for his birthday. He was also really excited. But he’ll leave it at the club, and shoot trap and skeet with his son when he visits. He won’t shoot up a church of innocent people who were unarmed.

The drugs were illegal that Roof was using, but somehow he purchased those in a parking lot of a local mall two weeks after he was banned from that mall.

The drugs are not to blame.

“If we make guns illegal, then nobody will get shot anymore. That’s how we stopped everybody from doing drugs.”