On slaughter culture
It seems to me there is a reasonable solution to the “slaughter culture” we are experiencing in America. Unless I’m way off base, the insurance industry holds the key. It certainly has the funding to buy off the politicians and even Justice Thomas and the rest of his ilk. It could easily get legislation passed to require that all firearms be licensed and insured. That will solve the issue of the people with gun fetishes buying hundreds of guns unless they can afford the liability insurance. This would no doubt deter hundreds of thousands of guns being nonchalantly added to their collections for their toddlers and using guns for raffles at church. Make it make sense! And this way the crooks in office won’t feel the pain in their pocketbooks.
That being said, I am a gun owner and would use one if I felt that I would die if I didn’t. That doesn’t mean I would shoot a delivery person or someone who is lost and trying to get directions. Girl Scouts would survive knocking on my door.
I was married to an avid gun collector for several years and watched his interest turn into compulsion and separate him from reality. Years after our divorce he became unable to function and took his own life with one of his guns.
I have family members who own lots of guns, and they are very responsible. I have a favorite cousin who gives me venison every year. All this does not mean that we should ignore the fact that we don’t have proper gun laws in place to protect everyone’s freedom to live in a country with reasonable protections against being slaughtered in church, school, parades, fairs, clubs, knocking on a door needing assistance, or not liking the way someone is driving.
I’m surprised that some responsible gun-owning Americans haven’t formed a new organization for us that practices safety and responsibility with firearms. The NRA is no longer doing what it said it would do. It’s only about its bottom line now. And unfortunately we keep sending people to D.C. whose apparent sole purpose is to take bribes and become wealthy.
My hope lies in those young people who are reaching voting age.
JAN TITSWORTH
Mena