Guns Kill

by | Dec 17, 2012 | 0 comments

I am numbed by the tragedy of gun violence that, yet again, took so many innocent lives.  This time it claimed the most innocent of all.  Our precious, young children and their teachers.  I first wrote about the issue of gun violence on March 24th of this year in a piece entitled Do Guns Make Us Safer.  I recommend a reread if you read it before.  It’s a good place to start this discussion. The only difference is that now, like Joe Scarborough this morning on Morning Joe, I’ve had it.   I know it’s not worth it.  I don’t care if your view of the right of our citizens to possess weapons of mass homicide arises from a broad view of the...

Do Guns Make Us Safer?

by | Mar 24, 2012 | 0 comments

Oh, controversy.  Get thee behind me.  Yes, I know a lot of you are, shall we say, not completely of open mind about the issue of gun ownership, but I am, nevertheless, compelled to speak my mind on the subject.  I am myself a gun owner having a Browning 20 gauge secreted somewhere at my ranch.  I even have some shotgun shells around, but I can only find them when I have no use for them. A few years ago in a fit of excessive gun safety, I bought and installed a trigger guard, and promptly lost the key.  I’ve hunted off and on since the age of twelve, but not distinguished myself at it, and during my brief military career, I qualified, or at least shot, ...