Opinion
The cliché: if they took our guns away, only criminals would have guns is too horrible. It would be unbearable to be defenseless against criminals who obviously would never surrender their arms.
It is not as if we were unarmed to start with, there are millions of arms in the general public now. Most gun owners would concur with and support increased background checks, we already have them in California, but we are all scared of the pacifists outlawing our guns and making us all criminals.
Another cliché comes to mind, that that they would have to take my gun from my cold dead hands.
Our police are not bodyguards, they investigate crime and bring criminals to justice, it is our own responsibility to defend ourselves within the limits of the law.
Let’s not forget who creates these horrendous acts, people not firearms. Before guns, swords, bows, knives, and spears killed millions, and an unarmed and untrained populace made it easy for the bad guys.
I would rather think of people as being mostly of good will, and trusting that we outnumber and outgun the bad guys.
So let’s not get carried away with emotion, we all sympathize and even empathize with the victims’ families and loved ones, but we must not get stampeded into making serious errors.
Remember what the law did with prohibition and our present drug war, they created an outlaw industry that nurtures and makes an entire new set of wealthy law breakers.
This would be a negative unintended consequence that none of us needs.
Dave Gebhard lives in Lakeport, Calif.
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Has any one actually read the Second Amendment?
It is quite simply worded, “A well regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed.”
This has nothing to do with collecting guns, using gun for personal protection, nor hunting.
It seems to me the founding fathers were saying a militia (an army composed of ordinary citizens rather than professional soldiers) is needed to insure a free state.
That we the citizens of this country will be well armed and able to maintain our own freedoms. That we will not be subservient to a government that no longer places its citizens first. One where the politicians place their personal gains ahead of the country's well being.
While these mass murders in the news are horrible they are committed by an extremely small percentage of the citizens, yet our government would have us believe that they must disarm us all to make us safe.
Just look at what happens when unarmed citizens become unable to defend themselves from tyranny;
the history books are full of these tales and this is the very thing the founding fathers were trying to protect us from!
James Hankins lives in Lucerne, Calif.
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