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In reply to the discussion: Does your neighbor having an AR-15 in his house make you feel safer? [View all]overthehillvet
(38 posts)I know many liberals who own firearms and who hunt and fish. I also know liberals who have concealed carry permits and who keep firearms in their homes for protection. I also know many conservatives who share all of these things.
I hear the conservatives rant about how the liberals want to take away their firearms and I hear people in here ranting against the conservatives and who really do want to take away their firearms. Those liberals do not represent all liberals or even most liberals, and those conservatives do not speak for all conservatives.
The second amendment is a spark that lights up many strong passions but it is not a right or left issue. Most people are somewhere in the middle on this.
Those of us who are politically in the middle on this issue must pick it up and own it. If we allow the far left gun confiscation bunch or the far right morons who want no gun laws to push this into a partisan fight then nothing will get done and more children will die.
We have to find answers and pass laws that do three things.
Protect our children from people with guns who want to kill them. This protection must begin tomorrow. We can not depend on laws that may protect them in a decade or two.
We must find a way to stop the illegal trade in guns. Even our own government has been involved in this. All who cross that line need to be prosecuted and imprisoned with no exceptions.
We need to keep these laws within the bounds of our constitution until it is changed.
This cause is a huge task and one that we can only accomplish together.