I remember as a kid if you owned a BB gun or a slingshot you were hot stuff. Nowadays, even a handgun doesn’t really impress anyone. But if you have any kind of semi-automatic weapon, everything changes. Now, you become invincible. Really?
Why would anyone want or need any kind of assault weapon? You can’t hunt deer with it, not a bear or a moose. So, if you aren’t going to war, why then do you want one? Is it to show off, is it to be a big man in the neighborhood?
I would venture, even a member of the NRA couldn’t give us a real solid answer to that one.
An even more important question might be: Why doesn’t our government do something? I wonder if, maybe some of our own people in high places maybe get a little reward if they vote against gun control. I know this for sure: There is some reason why no one does anything to stop these killings.
These guns need to be gathered up and destroyed and a law passed against even selling them again. Then after this law gets passed, if you still own one, a stiff jail sentence should stop them.
Washington, do something positive for a change and try to earn your pay. You are there to serve us, not each other. So stand up and be your own person, instead of someone else’s.
Harry Pringle
Marysville
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