Guns are the most democratic things on earth. A gun will kill you regardless of whether you
are Republican or Democrat, child or adult, black, white, Hispanic or Asian,
Jewish, Christian or Muslim. I don’t see
why the National Rifle Association doesn’t run full-page ads emphasizing “Guns
are Equal Opportunity Killers.” Instead,
the NRA wants to see more guns in circulation on the ludicrous argument that
more guns will mean less killings. They
want to arm school teachers, believe everybody should pack a heater and when Arizona bought back
weapons and destroyed them, the NRA complained that those guns should be given
to gun dealers and put back in circulation.
Instead of stupid arguments that defy common sense, the NRA should stick
to the irrefutable fact that guns were made to kill and do not discriminate
against good or bad guys. Of course, the
NRA is willing to consider a national data base of the mentally ill, but not a
national data base of gun owners. Perhaps they are afraid too many names will appear on both lists.
1 comment:
I enjoy reading your blog and think you really nailed the gun issue. I recently read an interesting letter on the NPR website, by Jane Smiley, the author, equating guns to cars, (not new) but like cars requiring owners to carry insurance on potential damages. The profit motive is a good incentive to have the insurance companies help enforcing the effort to keep high risk individuals from owning guns. Insurance companies don't like to pay out and tend not to insure high risk individuals. E. g health care. This does raise questions, like how much to pay for a human life and rich psychos can still afford the insurance!! Have to be more than just this.
Hi to Linda.
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