I plan on posting this on fb and sending it as a letter to the editor of a few newspapers need some help from our more educated members on punctuation and spelling, and pointers on sentence structure if I screwed up.
Something to think about by Joseph
I am hearing new talk about a ban on sporting rifles and regular capacity magazines, I understand that we as a nation are all hurting over this tragedy. I do not claim to have the answer and I am not opposed to mandatory wait times, rules on keeping them stored a certain way when I'm not home to help prevent someone unlawfully gaining access to them, i am not opposed to making it mandatory for all prospective firearm buyers to go though a 4473 form. I do think something has to be done to limit access to unstable people. I have kept pretty silent thus far but I had a thought today that helped me put this is prospective so bare with me for a moment. I am not a hunter, I am not a right wing conservative that hates our president, I am not a sporting shooter 'although I enjoy it doing it from time to time with friends' I own firearms with magazines ranging from 4 to 40 rounds. I believe in my right to keep them and for anyone else that is law abiding and not medically prohibited to do the same.
Some make the argument, 'I just don't understand why you need something like that' they shake their heads and judge me, they look at me as if I am a psychopath gun nut and must be so utterly insane for even considering owning such an evil GUN like that, just owning it will make me want to go on a rampage and kill people, because why else would someone want something like that? then they get in their car and go down the road and leave scared to death of the crazy man. The road they drive on will have had more people killed on it than the amount of people that this area will see that was killed by a firearm. They may be into cars that are 'modified' they may have nitro injection that makes their very nice ride very fast and no one would ever think to make that illegal. They are more likely to break the law by speeding thus putting my life and those of anyone else on that road in danger than I am to ever have to present a firearm in self defense. Yet I am the crazy one, may I ask this, if the law throughout the land says a car may not exceed 70mph on any road in this country except in a few states, why do you 'need' something that goes faster than the law allows? Why do you need the ability to put numerous lives in danger just because you enjoy having something that you may take to a track and really smash that pedal down to see what it's got? you may have the common sense and enough love for your fellow man not to ever put them into that kind of danger, that is all irrelevant though, because a select few will knowingly break the law and end up killing 1 or more people and usually themselves in a wreck we must now pass new laws that limit your ability lawful or not to own and take your street rod, muscle car, modified ricer, or beastly truck to a track under controlled and relatively safe conditions because a select few break the law and kill people. How many fatalities were caused by excessive speed on our roads last year in which someone was speeding and thus breaking the law killing1 or more people in a wreck? Why do they need something that goes more than 70mph? Should we now pass a law that regulates them to 70mph and not a bit faster? Why do they need a v8 motor? Even though the vast majority of people that have cars that are capable of going 100+mph are law abiding and drive the speed limit should we out law these grossly over powered vehicles because we fear what someone may do with it? If your answer is no then why is it ok to do the exact same thing to law abiding and responsible citizens that own sporting rifles, or handguns with magazines capable of having more than 10 rounds in them? Just because your hobby is something else does not give you more rights than me because I have the previously mentioned firearms, because in fact those are PROTECTED BY OUR CONSTITUTION AND THAT RIGHT SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED, your right to a fast car that is more likely to kill someone than my rifle is not protected by the constitution, given it was drafted before motor vehicles but it could be amended if we thought it necessary to make it a right.
I may have a different hobby than these and yes my hobby is dangerous but is it any different than the previously mentioned persons? You may think it is and that opinion of yours is covered under the same paper my right to own firearms is. I understand that wrecks are accidents and not murder but does that make the tragedy easier to bare for those that just lost a loved one? I doubt it and I imagine they look at the person driving the car for their unbearable loss not the car itself.
Something to think about by Joseph
I am hearing new talk about a ban on sporting rifles and regular capacity magazines, I understand that we as a nation are all hurting over this tragedy. I do not claim to have the answer and I am not opposed to mandatory wait times, rules on keeping them stored a certain way when I'm not home to help prevent someone unlawfully gaining access to them, i am not opposed to making it mandatory for all prospective firearm buyers to go though a 4473 form. I do think something has to be done to limit access to unstable people. I have kept pretty silent thus far but I had a thought today that helped me put this is prospective so bare with me for a moment. I am not a hunter, I am not a right wing conservative that hates our president, I am not a sporting shooter 'although I enjoy it doing it from time to time with friends' I own firearms with magazines ranging from 4 to 40 rounds. I believe in my right to keep them and for anyone else that is law abiding and not medically prohibited to do the same.
Some make the argument, 'I just don't understand why you need something like that' they shake their heads and judge me, they look at me as if I am a psychopath gun nut and must be so utterly insane for even considering owning such an evil GUN like that, just owning it will make me want to go on a rampage and kill people, because why else would someone want something like that? then they get in their car and go down the road and leave scared to death of the crazy man. The road they drive on will have had more people killed on it than the amount of people that this area will see that was killed by a firearm. They may be into cars that are 'modified' they may have nitro injection that makes their very nice ride very fast and no one would ever think to make that illegal. They are more likely to break the law by speeding thus putting my life and those of anyone else on that road in danger than I am to ever have to present a firearm in self defense. Yet I am the crazy one, may I ask this, if the law throughout the land says a car may not exceed 70mph on any road in this country except in a few states, why do you 'need' something that goes faster than the law allows? Why do you need the ability to put numerous lives in danger just because you enjoy having something that you may take to a track and really smash that pedal down to see what it's got? you may have the common sense and enough love for your fellow man not to ever put them into that kind of danger, that is all irrelevant though, because a select few will knowingly break the law and end up killing 1 or more people and usually themselves in a wreck we must now pass new laws that limit your ability lawful or not to own and take your street rod, muscle car, modified ricer, or beastly truck to a track under controlled and relatively safe conditions because a select few break the law and kill people. How many fatalities were caused by excessive speed on our roads last year in which someone was speeding and thus breaking the law killing1 or more people in a wreck? Why do they need something that goes more than 70mph? Should we now pass a law that regulates them to 70mph and not a bit faster? Why do they need a v8 motor? Even though the vast majority of people that have cars that are capable of going 100+mph are law abiding and drive the speed limit should we out law these grossly over powered vehicles because we fear what someone may do with it? If your answer is no then why is it ok to do the exact same thing to law abiding and responsible citizens that own sporting rifles, or handguns with magazines capable of having more than 10 rounds in them? Just because your hobby is something else does not give you more rights than me because I have the previously mentioned firearms, because in fact those are PROTECTED BY OUR CONSTITUTION AND THAT RIGHT SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED, your right to a fast car that is more likely to kill someone than my rifle is not protected by the constitution, given it was drafted before motor vehicles but it could be amended if we thought it necessary to make it a right.
I may have a different hobby than these and yes my hobby is dangerous but is it any different than the previously mentioned persons? You may think it is and that opinion of yours is covered under the same paper my right to own firearms is. I understand that wrecks are accidents and not murder but does that make the tragedy easier to bare for those that just lost a loved one? I doubt it and I imagine they look at the person driving the car for their unbearable loss not the car itself.
