Commentary: Our own insane policy on handguns
January 12, 2011 at 6:00 pm in West Central Tribune
I had a teacher in college who used to ask, Who discovered America? He would offer some choices. They were Amerigo Vespucci, Christopher Columbus or the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria. The answer he wanted was the three ships with which eventually someone would have discovered the New World and without which everyone would have remained in Spain. It is no different with the tragedy in Tucson. Hate speech and madness were part of the mix, but it was the gun and our insane gun laws that resulted in six deaths. Until we come to grips with that, as a nation, we remain armed and dangerous.
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Last time I checked guns don’t kill people….people kill people. Make what ever laws you want……..then only the criminals will have guns. Stop trying to take the rights of LAW ABIDING PEOPLE AWAY!!! Now that the fact are out their are a lot more people to “blame” then blaming guns. If someone wants to kill you and is willing to die themselves there isn’t a lot that can be done. But I’d rather take that chance with a gun strapped to my side. Hopefully God sees to never put me in that position.
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