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Op-ed: I don’t want to see your gun (by Peter Children)

A short while ago I wrote about too many permits being issued to carry guns. Then all the would-be cowboys came out of the barn to shoot me down. Now a man has been shot in the knee by his four year old son. He could have just as well been shot in the gut or groin…he could be dead.

One child in a school in Ohio is dead and several others are injured; where did the gun that was used come from?  Did it drop out of the sky? What if it were your child who went to school that day and never returned home…what would be your decision then?

In this country guns are a sacred right and they should be.  In many countries around the world you cannot own a gun, but then you are not allowed to say what’s on your mind either, and more than likely the boarders are locked down….those are the people who need guns.  If you are afraid in your own home it could be because you’re cooking something you shouldn’t be and you’re afraid the smell will attract the law.  If you are simply afraid to go to the store without carrying then you need to see a shrink.

When there are a lot of guns around, there is a much greater chance one will be used in a domestic argument resulting in a fatality, or something similar to what happened to the man who was shot by his four year old.

I am in favor of guns, not against them. But when I am in a restaurant having lunch I don’t want to see some drug store cowboy sitting at the table next to me with enough firepower strapped to their leg to take out half the patrons.  If you open your eyes and see where you are at you will find out no one is threatening your freedom here.  You want to worry about Iran and the bomb; if they acquire one and drop it here….well you know what you can do with that pistol.

Peter Children

 

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