I recently attended a town hall panel discussion meeting at Mariner High School with our U.S. Rep. Rick Larsen. If you watch the news, then you will have heard the arguments on both sides of the school shootings debate. Those at the meeting expressed with passion the many NRA talking points and were unwilling to relent on a weapon of war within our communities. The sometimes-intense verbiage of those gun advocates fell short of a skilled presentation and carried rhetoric laced with what I consider the “cold dead hands theory.” An excellent representative from our Attorney General’s Office carried the panel discussion to a level past the sound bites and blessed the audience with mature common sense. Mr. Larson and the rest of the panel brought the reality of the time we live in.
The students who spoke are within a demographic change in our country and I hope their message locks in like seat belts and Mothers against Drunk Driving. My generation failed to protect them. It will not be those students who witness this sea change but their children and decedents. In a future high school history class, a young student will ask, “what was wrong with those people?”
To the merchants within the city of Snohomish, I applaud you for your vision within this debate.
A recent comment relayed to me was, “If guns do not kill people than why do people use guns as the weapon of choice to kill people.”
Martin Bradley
Everett
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