Answer to gun violence is discipline, respect for law

For years we have payed to watch crime and killing on just about every news media you can think of, on video games as well. Most of this starts in Hollywood, which is now crying for “gun control.”

It is not guns that kill, but those who pull the trigger, having to feel more powerful than those who’s lives they are taking. Rules, and laws, start in the home, I call it discipline. This is where the beginning of a contributing, law-abiding person starts. Not to have your name in the paper because you have committed a crime, or to draw attention to your self at a public event, for a cause you believe in.

What is going on however, is the message we are sending our young people, that you don’t have to obey the law. Because those individuals representing the law, interpreted it for their own political agenda, changing the laws to what they believe it should be. Leaving those people, who’s job it is to enforce the law, to take the brunt for doing their job.

Johanna Howard

Darrington

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