Editor: January
17, 2013
It is time for us to face straight
into the issue of being a nation of citizens possessing 300 million guns. We’ve tinkered with regulation long
enough. Discussions about guns that
focus on fear, second amendment rights, protecting schools with guns, comparing
guns to automobile dangers, background checks and blaming mentally ill people
only divert us from considering what kind of nation we want to be.
Today, it seems, we seek to arm good people to out gun bad people. Our children learn that guns are the way to solve relationships with anyone we fear: the bad people. No wonder our young people sometimes turn to guns to solve their problems.
Congress, Mr. President, Governors,
Councils, Legislators, citizens consider the option of a gun free society. Don’t let fearful people with guns silence
discussion. Guns do not demonstrate
strength. They hide weakness.
Consider:
+Protect
our homes with a network of good neighbor communications.
+Fear
an oppressive government? Learn to participate in our democratic society. (No amount of home firepower can protect us
today from a rogue government army in possession of assault weapons, rockets,
tanks, drones and overwhelming air power).
+Target
shooters rent guns at a firing range.
+Reevaluate
hunting for sport.
+Allow basic rifles for
hunting food and for predatory animal control in rural settings.
Our safety does not depend on guns to
overpower one another. Our safety
depends on tools of education, compassion, empathy and understanding to empower
each other to be good citizens and good neighbors.
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