Letters to the Editor
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gunz
I feel like writing a letter to my congressman. I've only read the first two pages of the letters and I think I get the picture. Fine. You only feel safe if you own a gun. I don't own a gun and I don't feel safe, but I don't want to take care of my feeling of unsafeness by buying a gun. Do I at least have that option? Keep the second amendment. But why, why, why not have a serious, thorough licensing process for people who want to own guns? The argument that criminals will find other ways to arm themselves has a serious flaw: the fact that the crazy shit who killed 33 people legally armed himself DOES make the government, does make us complicit in his actions. I really wouldn't want to have the sale of an efficient killing machine to a mass murdererer on my conscience. It's harder to get a library card than it was for this kid to buy a gun! How can there not be some way to deal with this? How can people turn away from this crude fact? Yes, a person with nefarious plans can find a way to execute them even without a gun to play with. But it would be harder. If he was sitting around in his dorm room making explosives, he might have been spotted. If he was only armed with a knife, I reckon far fewer people would have died, and this would have been a tragedy for fewer people. A background check on this guy would not have been useless- he was in a mental institution, for chrissakes! The campus police had him in their records! If you want to use your gun for legal purposes, like shooting intruders or bunnies, I'm sure the system can incorporate these healthy pursuits, and if the government starts knocking on our doors askin' questions at least y'all will be prepared. Now let's do something other than just vent into the cybervoid.