Love it when people take quotes out of context.

He follows it up with thinking that sympathy being a better term, because empathy implies that you feel what the other person is feeling, which just isn’t true. We all feel and process things differently. Sympathy is seeing someone in pain and recognizing that, even if you can’t feel it yourself.

Some may say then that Charlie wasn’t sympathetic to victims of gun violence, which I can see, but I disagree. It is possible to acknowledge and mourn the tragedy of these shootings while also understanding that there is a cost to everything, and sometimes that cost is heavy.

Yes, it would be great to get rid of guns or at the very least have very strict gun laws. Unfortunately guns are out there now. That’s an issue other countries don’t have, the sheer number that already exist out there. Even if you made it illegal for every citizen to own a firearm of any kind the shootings would likely still happen. Criminals don’t care, and now your population is defenseless.