The topic of guns is in the news again, and as always, there appears to be an impasse that will prevent consensus in the matter.
Most gun owners seem to keep them for reasons that are innocent enough. They like to hunt and/or they feel more secure if they have guns in their homes.
It is ironic that as our society has been attacked more frequently, those who oppose ownership of firearms see their confiscation as the solution to gun violence.
Supporters of the Second Amendment are quick to point out that those
who use guns unlawfully will not relinquish their weapons and those who
use them lawfully will be without means of protection against them.
While not offering a simple answer to the question of what should be done about "the right to bear arms," may I suggest that our founding fathers weighed the matter very carefully.
We who have benefited from their contemplation of so many freedoms that they have assured to us, who are advantaged in every way by the country they established upon the basis of those freedoms, not be hasty to relinquish any of them at the altar of fear.
Political correctness has corralled freedom of speech. Will criminal gun violence corral the right to bear arms?
While not offering a simple answer to the question of what should be done about "the right to bear arms," may I suggest that our founding fathers weighed the matter very carefully.
We who have benefited from their contemplation of so many freedoms that they have assured to us, who are advantaged in every way by the country they established upon the basis of those freedoms, not be hasty to relinquish any of them at the altar of fear.
Political correctness has corralled freedom of speech. Will criminal gun violence corral the right to bear arms?
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