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Showing Original Post only (View all)Every gun in the hands of a child must first pass through the hands of an adult. [View all]
This has been in my signature line since Newtown.
It was noticed by a few, during my Sunday Shooting Review, that there were an awful lot of guns in the hands of children this week.
It's not just this week. It's every week.
When you exercise the right to own a gun, you must not abdicate the responsibility of owning a gun. When a society is unable to responsibly exercise a right, that right winds up being curtailed. No one finds that anything but distasteful.
But.
It is not the fault of "gun grabbers," or gun control advocates of any stripe, that gun owners as a group are unable to police themselves in this regard. The means, and the opportunity to do so has been there for years. It has been there, and as a group, you have done nothing.
For gun owners, these days ahead are your last opportunity to demonstrate to the rest of us a willingness to take concrete steps to behave responsibly. I say this as a former gun owner, and with no small amount of regret.
Do not continue to squander this opportunity.