Dear American Leaders
The reason I am contacting you is in regards to the terrible
events of last Friday in Connecticut. Any death of a child is tragic, and to have a
madman kill 26 people is unthinkable but it happened.
The problem we now face is what to do about it. We can get emotional and pass another law but
that will not fix the problem. We need
to take a hard look at how we deal with mental health issues in this
country.
It is time to take a hard look at FACTS and admit that
gun control has not worked. We have
placed our most precious gift – our kids (I have 3) in schools that are gun
free zones. Why? How can we not protect our kids? We all but advertise they are defenseless and
wonder why crazed killers go there. . .
what are we thinking?
Over and over again these gun free zones have been where
the madman goes to kill people. All of
the mass shootings (more than three killed) since 1950 have been in gun free
zones with the exception of the Gifford shooting. This is not by accident. People know where folks will be disarmed and
cannot fight back. This attracts these
sick people as we have see over and over.
The other thing we have see over and over is that when a
civilian is there to stand up to them right away things end with far fewer
deaths. It has been shown that when
there is a lawful gun owner on site to react the death toll is just over 2- when
people have to wait for the police to get there the average death toll goes
over 14. That is the hard facts of gun
control – it does not make us safer, it puts us in more danger.
To take the emotion out of it look at it this way: We have outlawed drugs. . . but now we have
the war on drugs and still almost any high school kid in the US can tell you
how to get drugs. Our war on drugs has
not stopped the supply and has increased the violence involved as gangs and
dealers fight for control. Innocents are
injured and killed in their crossfire and neighborhoods ripped apart.
Prohibition in the 1920s was supposed to end alcohol in
the USA. What we got were stronger gangs
and people still got their booze. The
laws did nothing to stop it and increased the violence in our country to the
point we repealed the amendment and I hope learned from it. I admit our War on Drugs gives me doubts we
learned a thing.
I am asking that you do not support any NEW gun control
laws. We have plenty on the books now
and they have done nothing to protect us.
This shooter killed his own mother, stole her guns, took them to a gun
free zone, and then killed 26 people. He
broke at least 30 laws. Do you think one
more will change things? We need to have
a national discussion, but on Mental Health, not gun control. Until these people get the help they need we
will not change anything. This time the
tool was a gun. In 1927 44 were killed
when the madman used a bomb at the school instead. Timothy McVeigh used a car bomb and killed 168
people in 1995. In 1990 the Happy Land
fire in NYC (Very strict gun control) killed 87 people – it was arson with gas,
a very common item anyone can get.
Please support our rights. Don’t punish the millions of law abiding gun
owners for the act of a madman. Don’t take
away my ability to protect my children. It
is un-American to punish folks for acts they did not commit – why is this different. It is time for our leadership to stand up and
fix things. Please push for help for the
mentally ill. Only then will we see the
madness stop.
Thanks You
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