"Don't call me to discuss. I'm too emotional. A rage. But, I urge you to immediately write your thoughts and positions on guns, community and school shootings. Sandy Hook, Parkland, Sylmar, Orlando, Arvada, Buffalo, Columbine, Borderline Bar, San Bernardino, Uvalde, and on and on. I think that I hate the word 'gun' more than just any other word. Worst invention ever. I believe the second amendment should be overturned. I know you disagree with me and the views of many others on this subject. But, I think now is the time for you, again, to address these issues. I had to get this off my chest. Don't try to rationalize the second amendment or guns to me. Just write your blog. Hopefully, tonight." (Sent 5/24/22)
"Look at the background of all of the shooters. All loners/lonely. All angry. All leaving social media posts of intent. No one reporting warning signs. All with poor or no parenting - even the two engineers in NY. All suffering from mental illness. When will Mental Health professionals open their eyes and deal with violent behavior? I am for background checks to pacify the left. But show me a case where it would have made any difference. All the guns were legally obtained, even from the stupid parents in Michigan!"
"It seems like you'll look for every reason NOT to regulate guns. It certainly can't be the Second Amendment which does not prohibit all regulation of guns. Your prior blog about guns, which I thought was your worst, has not aged well. Yes, there are other things we can and should do. But gun regulation should be an EASY beginning. There's the lead for your blog. To acknowledge that evil exists gets us nowhere."
To paraphrase a retired police officer friend who spoke to me: I am furious at those cowards who stood outside and did not go in. I refuse to call them fellow cops - they are cowards! If you don't ever want to face danger, then don't put on the badge and don't carry a gun. But if you put on a badge and carry a gun, do your damn job! I've been in firefights. I've been shot. It's the risk we take by doing the job.
"Move the eligible age for purchasing a firearm up to 21? What if someone gets married at 18 - do they need to wait three years to be able to defend their person, loved ones and home? Should they move the age for marriage? Up or down? Age for driving? Age for drinking? Age for smoking marijuana? Age for a non-emergency abortion? Age for receiving 'transexual-ed' in school?"
"The vast number of shootings and murders are the result of gang violence. No 'assault weapons' are involved. Stop gang violence and the murder rate will plummet. Knives kill many more than AR rifles. Drug overdoses killed 108,000 kids last year, supplied by Mexican Cartels and the CCP. This is all just a political game to shore (up) democrat polling losses. We have a mental health crisis, a failure of faith and family cohesion, with politicians and the media sowing division within socioeconomic segments of American culture."
"The most common form of death by firearm is suicide. But a close second is related to drug warfare. Like the alcohol-fueled wars in the days of Prohibition, the huge amount of money involved in the drug trade leads to continued armed skirmishes in both our cities and our rural areas. In addition to the gun violence the drug trade creates, it has single-handedly created thousands and thousands of opioid overdose deaths. Drug-fueled gang warfare in Central America is the main impetus to illegal immigration from South and Central America...Gang-related deaths, the opioid crisis, illegal immigration, corruption of law enforcement - does any other problem in our country create a comparable list of crises? What is the solution? GET THE MONEY OUT OF DRUGS!! If it wasn't for US drug users paying them, these drug gangs and armies would no longer be funded...Decriminalizing drugs and provision of supervised free use and treatment centers, would cut the heart out of the economic fuel for drug deaths - whether by gun or by overdose."
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