As a kid, while visiting cousins in Capital City, we were playing tag outside. Suddenly my cousins all stopped and pointed at me. I was on the neighbor's lawn which was forbidden (and out of bounds). When I did title searching for Finley Engineering, I'd often be in unfamiliar places and quite a few times used a driveway to turn around. When I lived in the Big City, I went to visit other cousins but made a mistake and walked into the wrong house. When I saw a bunch of people I didn't recognize, I apologized profusely and immediately left. I stopped at the Post Office last week and was engrossed in reading a letter I'd just received as I walked back out to the car. Couldn't understand why the car door didn't open. Duh! It was the wrong car. I haven't realized until now how lucky I was to have never been shot during my life.
I'd hope the nation would finally realize that we need to be more discerning on who is allowed to have firearms. Unfortunately, I fear the lawmakers will instead follow the National Rife Association's stance that what is called for is not less guns but more. Guess if I'd been shot at in all of those past instances the NRA would expect me to shoot it out in the Post Office parking lot, shoot a family in their own home, put the windows in the car down and take pot shots at the land owners as I turned around on their property, and as a little girl - well - just get shot.
2 comments:
Powerfully put Susan and I couldn't agree more with your sentiments.
kn
I can see your point. However, I know that 95% of all murders/shootings are perpetrated by men. I have a weapon but have never even come close to using it in anger. I don't think I should be penalized because men can't control themselves. And that poor family in Baron that answered there door in the evening were shot and killed. Their daughter was kidnapped. The use of a weapon that evening might have saved their lives. It is a difficult subject and there is no easy answer.
cjb
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