Gun safety laws don’t take rifles away from hunters. Gun safety laws could and should take semi-automatic killing machines away from people who want to kill people. No one who wants gun safety laws is suggesting bundling hunting rifles in with semi-automatic killing machines. The shootings that have happened in other states could well happen […]
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New thinking about guns needed
Gun control has become a hot button issue, but it shouldn’t be. Virtually no one is advocating the abolition of all guns. That is not going to happen. People have the right to hunt and defend themselves. No one disputes that. We can have a conversation about concealed weapons in public. My opinion is law-abiding […]
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Together, we need to take action
Recently, this nation experienced yet another shooting on school premises. Seventeen young lives were snuffed out — 17 young people who will not attend a prom, go on another date, become Olympic athletes, be business or political leaders, become parents or spouses, lovers, or partners. It’s been said that now is not the time to […]
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Stop the slaughter of the children
How much longer are people going to stare gape-jawed as terrorists with legal weapons of monumental destruction gun down children and not stand up and say, enough? People who love guns more than their children should be forced to watch the video over and over of that classroom under attack by a terrorist with a […]
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Find a safer place for polling places
This is in response to the Sun Journal story, “Auburn police, soldiers train” (Oct. 20) about a training session simulating a gunman’s attack on a building. As stated by Auburn Police Staff Sgt. Daryl Wilson, “At the end of the day we give the community a little extra security.” Thank you for that. The article […]
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Withdraw from violent confrontations
Might there be a connection between U.S. foreign policy and gun violence within these borders? While the United States funnels the highest amount per capita of the populations’s tax money of any country in the free world into its military and sends those professionals and their ordnance into chaotic situations that only become more chaotic […]
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Who knew? Guns actually save lives …
Of course. It makes perfect sense. Why couldn’t I see it before? There could never have been a Holocaust had the Jews been armed. Granted, the Nazis swept aside the armies of Poland and France like dandruff, and it took six years for Great Britain — later joined by Russia and the United States — […]
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Immune to the horror?
The following facts about the 21st century are closely connected: • Almost every day, innocent people lose their lives to gun violence; • The United States has the highest per-capita rate of gun ownership of any developed nation; • Legislators, the National Rifle Association and other gun-huggers have misinterpreted the Second Amendment (which was intended […]
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Froma Harrop: Violence rears its ugly head once again
To the rising pile of shooting rampages, Americans can now add the rapid-fire murder of 12 people at the Washington Navy Yard. It is a sign of our remarkable times that this horrid deed seems to pale next to the massacre of 20 schoolchildren in suburban Connecticut last December. Behind virtually every one of these […]