Unfortunately just a few days before Christmas we had that awful school shooting known simply as Sandy Hook. Too many children, and adults dead from a single gunman, who then took his own life, and we'll never know the motivation, although a few family friends have speculated.
The carnage was caused by an assault rifle, a legal assault rifle. That is to say the owner of said gun purchased it legally. But it wasn't the shooter. It was his mother who bought the gun. Which brings the first question. Why did a mother, who admitted her son had mental health issues, buy an assault rifle? Second question... why was it not put in such a secure place that he could not get his hands on it? Same question for the other guns she had in her possession.
I'm not anti-gun, but I am anti-assault rifle. I know the constitution gives us the right to "bear arms" but I believe the founding fathers meant to take up arms against those who would depose us from our homeland. We use arms to protect our homes; to hunt; in war. But only in war would an assault rifle be advised. Are we now at war with future generations?
Therefore, a third question...why are we allowing the sale of assault rifles? In my mind, they're hardly "sporting" rifles. Hardly gives the game a "fair" chance.
As for Wayne LaPierre, from the NRA, saying that authorities had "blood on their hands" by not taking better care to secure schools, my blood boils at the assumption. Does anybody really give him credence, with such amazingly thoughtless, heartless statements?
Too many questions, not enough answers on Day 227!
The carnage was caused by an assault rifle, a legal assault rifle. That is to say the owner of said gun purchased it legally. But it wasn't the shooter. It was his mother who bought the gun. Which brings the first question. Why did a mother, who admitted her son had mental health issues, buy an assault rifle? Second question... why was it not put in such a secure place that he could not get his hands on it? Same question for the other guns she had in her possession.
I'm not anti-gun, but I am anti-assault rifle. I know the constitution gives us the right to "bear arms" but I believe the founding fathers meant to take up arms against those who would depose us from our homeland. We use arms to protect our homes; to hunt; in war. But only in war would an assault rifle be advised. Are we now at war with future generations?
Therefore, a third question...why are we allowing the sale of assault rifles? In my mind, they're hardly "sporting" rifles. Hardly gives the game a "fair" chance.
As for Wayne LaPierre, from the NRA, saying that authorities had "blood on their hands" by not taking better care to secure schools, my blood boils at the assumption. Does anybody really give him credence, with such amazingly thoughtless, heartless statements?
Too many questions, not enough answers on Day 227!
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