We are constantly reminded that the Second Amendment guarantees Americans the right “to keep and bear arms.” I suppose that was the message of the 10 civilian men I saw wearing sidearms in Mill Creek last week. Armed strangers make me shy; otherwise, I might have reminded them of the second and third words in the amendment: “WELL REGULATED.”
Every day we hear horrific reports of gun violence, yet it is ludicrously easy to carry a gun. Every day we hear the absurd mantra, “Guns don’t kill people, people do.” Actually, it is largely men who kill people. Less than half the population, they are responsible for 91.3 percent of gun homicides.
So let me pass along a suggestion from Randy Cohen to the more responsible half of our population. If we can’t or won’t curb gun violence by restricting the availability of guns, let’s expand and reorient it. Require all women to get a gun, preferably pink, and carry it in plain sight everywhere they go. “Feminizing gun ownership, could ultimately reduce its appeal to men, making gun-toting as unmasculine as carrying a purse.”
That idea is saner than anything we are doing now to confront a very serious problem.
Sue Griswold
Mill Creek
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