A pick-up truck passed me the other day. On his back window
was this sticker:
“My
other auto is a .45.”
Guess he’s feeling a little threatened? It’s certainly not
clever!
The New England Journal of Medicine provides this sobering
statistic embedded in a fictional quote:
“I keep guns in my home because I
am 43 times more likely to kill a family member, friend or acquaintance and 22
times more likely to kill myself than to kill an intruder. Guns make me safe.”
Yet Ronald Reagan had this to say about the proliferation of
guns:
“There is no reason why, on the
street today, a citizen should be carrying loaded weapons. Guns are a
ridiculous way to solve problems that have to be solved among people of good
will.”
I’m not against guns. I just think there are too many of
them. And in the wrong hands of people incapable of controlling their anger,
fear and hate. We need more common sense applied to this issue.
November 23, 2013
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