Yesterday,
it was a Naval facility, Last week it was a school. Tomorrow it might
be a doctor's office. Last year it was a District Attorney's home. Today
it was a TSA counter at LAX. Gun violence is raging in America.
Add more guns, we are told by the NRA.
As a former student of the US
Constitution, I ask this question: at what point do we say, enough is
enough? At what point do we realize that each additional gun circulating
in society makes us exponentially more unsafe? At what point do we
place the Second Amendment alongside the others, not above them? I weep
for our country because we have become a literal battleground. Human
beings will be born as they are and societies will continue to develop
them as they do. When you add the number of guns we have in America to a
mix which includes the naturally occurring rate of mental illness, you
get a really toxic brew. More legally available guns is not the answer.
It has proven itself not to be. Just as we cannot gauge and prevent the
mentally infirm from acquiring weapons, we cannot entrust our future to a
militarized life where you must live with your guns drawn at all times.
America, it is time for a change.
