Wednesday, 25 May 2022
The horrors just keep coming. There are no answers but there certainly can be some actions. As a kid, I can remember the National Rifle Association was an organization concerned with gun safety. In Boy Scouts, we picked up on that theme one year at the state fair and presented lessons to people at the fair on how to safely handle a gun when hunting. How to carry a gun while walking in the woods, how to safely cross a fence with a gun (you unloaded it first), how to never point a gun at a person. In the military, before we were allowed to even hold a rifle or a pistol we were required to undergo a gun safety lecture.
Think of what must occur before you can legally drive a vehicle. Age restrictions, learner’s permit, insurance, renewal of licenses. How is it that these regulations are not even debated and yet anyone over 18 can purchase a gun without training, licensing, insurance?
Apparently, thoughts and prayers are not getting it done. Neither is Congress.