AURORA

AURORA, COLORADO

The last time I looked, there were no Redcoats marching down Main Street, no Soviet or Chinese troops massed at the border or coming ashore at our beaches. All the predators are cordoned off into the wilderness and as far as criminals go, the Police are still out there seeking them, when they aren’t giving out tickets for speeding and reckless driving.

So my question is: Why do we need guns in this society, to hunt? Do we really need to allow every crackpot that desires a gun to have one because hunters have one? Is there no way to regulate the sale of a weapon if you are not a hunter?

What abut it, conservatives, you think it is a so-called “right” to own a gun?Why are you protecting my right to own an assault weapon? Why do I need it?

If it is a ‘right’ to own a gun, and guns being so wonderful, why is it that you need a permit to carry one, and a license to own one? What makes it so necessary to have these things in the first place?

I have another question.

It you are so anti-abortion, why is it you are for legalizing the ownership of guns? Isn’t that a contrediction?

COLUMBINE

The U.S. Constitution is a living document, designed that way so that society in the USA could make changes for the benefit of its citizens. Do we need to arm our citizens, when in fact that is nothing to arm against any longer?

When I heard about Aurora, it did not shock me. It did not even upset me, because I kind of expect these kinds of events happening. Since Waco Texas and Columbine, I have become de-sensitize to all this insanity, to protect myself. Crazies have gotten permits and licenses and armed themselves and went out to settle scores. The problem is the scores they settle are with the innocent.

I have another question.

How many innocent do we need to kill and still maintain our ‘right ‘ to bare arms? There is a very lame argument out there that cars kill more people every year than guns do. Can we equate an accident by a driver, drunken or not with an individual who goes out with intent and deliberately kills someone because guns are available so easily? How much violence will the conservatives in this country sponsor?

It is bad enough that this country’s citizens today are so selfish, so demanding and so insensitive to others; do we need these people with these attitudes owning guns too? You see them on the roads, with their vehicles, not stopping for stop signs, running the shoulder and traffic lights and thinking nothing of getting behind the wheel of a car and endangering everyone including themselves with drugs and alcohol while they drive?

I think it is OK to have a gun that is properly registered and licensed, and is used to hunt as a sport, but to own a dangerous weapon with out any real reason except to kill someone like it happens in Aurora movie theaters is insane, incentive and criminal in both a lawful and moral way.