A few thoughts about guns.
First, guns do not directly kill. People do bad things with guns. More gun laws will not change bad people.
Instead of millions of dollars being used for more laws/initiatives, why don’t we invest those millions of dollars in places that will directly help the problem, like education, maybe mental health facilities and police department budgets? Why don’t we put money toward enforcing existing laws, and identifying the real problem, which is bad people.
All the laws you can write, all the money you can spend making more laws will not do it. Bring good laws to the table that keeps good people in this country armed, because good people can make a difference, because we care!
Consider Sandy Hook, where a mentally disturbed teenager obtained his weapons from the mother and home he lived in, (the mother was a legal gun owner). How would I-594 stop that from happening? Spend the millions of dollars truly going after and identifying the real problems.
I think the more laws that are passed, the more crime you will see related to obtaining guns. Bad people will get guns somehow, like home invasions, the use of other weapons to steal guns from many sources or places, even taking police officers’ guns from them; how sad will it get.
So use common sense and arm yourself, educate and protect your family, neighbors and anything we can do to legally help combat people violence.
Remember it’s (people) doing bad things with weapons, it’s not guns doing bad things.
I’m not suggesting how to vote, I think common sense and identifying the real problems will cause I-594 to fail at the polls.
Thanks for reading a few common sense thoughts.
Don Bakker
Marysville
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