GUN VIOLENCE: WHAT WE NEED TO DO

 SPECIAL POST

I said it way back then, after the shootings in Newtown:  All sides need to work together to determine the causes and find solutions for not only gun violence, but violence in general.  There's not a single one of us who owns guns who advocates for the continuation of violence; yet, we justifiably see the argument as a way to abrogate our Second Amendment Rights.  We fully understand and know that taking away guns from honest, law abiding citizens is not only going to fail in solving the problem, but it is going to exacerbate the problem.  

But, we can't just sit on those facts and do nothing, either.  I said it then, I'll repeat it:  We need to be working together to find ways to decrease the sociological factors which lead to violence.  And, I'm not necessarily in agreement that taking guns away from those with mental problems will accomplish this.    I mean... who is mentally incompetent?  If someone hates blacks, or gays, or cops or whites... I don't know that hatred or dislike constitutes a mental illness.  Nevertheless, people who fit those categories sometimes commit violent acts.  

Once again, I strongly suggest that Obama and his goons quit the anti-gun rhetoric, just as I suggest that the NRA set aside its "do nothing" attitude, and that we form a commission of cops, priests, psychiatrists, sociologists and like-minded experts in their fields to research and identify the root causes of violent behavior, and that the committee makes recommendations as to how we as a society can eliminate or mitigate those factors.  

It seems to me those on both sides of the gun control debate have entrenched themselves in their positions to the extent that they cannot, or will not, see the forest through the trees.  

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.