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Some Proposals For Gun Control

Readers' Forum

To The Reader’s Forum:

Control is a complicated word in our political discourse. Especially when we were founded on the principle of freedom from tyranny and taxes without representation. Why do we want to control issues related to transgender people and gay weddings? Or control wokeness by banning books in schools and women’s reproductive abilities but not guns? Why is control so important for some issues but not others?

When did controlling how people think and behave become more important than telling the truth? The Ten Commandments don’t tell us how to think, they just tell us what to do. They make no mention of transgender people, but they do tell us not to lie, not to covet, not to kill and to love God above all else. We print “In God we Trust” on our money but promote gun rights over the law of God. Does this make sense?

Why do we prize owning an assault weapon with 30 round clips over the lives of children in school? Why do we listen to the lies about the need for guns when they have not stopped the over 100 mass shootings that we have already had this year? If guns are safe, why are people tragically dying in such great numbers?

Why are assault weapons so alluring that we disregard protecting the lives of innocent children and bystanders? Should we now praise the heroes that died by AR15 guns for allowing you to own one? I am quite sure that families who lost loved ones would have supported massive nation-wide gun control if it meant their loved ones would be spared!

I have a simple suggestion to this whole issue. Treat guns like cars. To own a gun, you should need hours of training, be required to lock up all ammunition, have no loaded guns in the house, and be licensed and approved. On top of that, everyone must be insured, like you are for a car, with one-million-dollar coverage for each death caused by a gun registered to you. This may upset a lot of people. To which I would say, why aren’t you upset with the rules and regulations needed to purchase and drive a car on the road? Life is more important than the right to own guns that are designed for one purpose only, to kill!

How do you want to control our moral dilemmas? By banning books and transgender people in sports, or take God’s commandment seriously when it says, “thou shalt not kill” like we do on the abortion issue? Does the Second Amendment override the Sixth Commandment? Should we invoke policies and laws that follow God’s will for our lives, or should we seek to control others based on our misguided values?

Jamestown

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