While I have lived in CT for nearly 2/3rds of my life. I have a different take on gun control than many gun control advocates.
I grew up in rural Western New York where hunting was to put food on the table for many. Hunting was so sacred that the first Day of Deer Season was a school holiday.
There is no way an assault weapon is for anything, but to kill people. You certainly can't eat any animal that it has killed.
Let the hunters have their rifles and if you feel the need for protection carry a handgun, but for God's sake ban assault-type weapons and the carnage they unleash! I have both my vaccine shots and am looking forward to life getting back to "normal". Mass murders were not on my wish list!!!
Penfield here, with NRA-issued Marksman & Marksman First Class medals issued when I was at Boy Scout Camp Massaweepee on Tupper Lake. As former Senator McCaskill said this morning, “Please let’s regulate guns like we regulate driver’s licenses!”
I'm not sure you have a different take, though I also grew up in rural Upstate NY and my dad had a couple of hunting dogs for awhile. Maybe that's it. :) I do think that no gun should be in the hands of some people who are a danger to themselves or others.
This is sad, frustrating, and makes me so angry that our legislators DON'T DO ANYTHING! A friend was a friend of Lonna (Tralona). He described her as wonderful, sweet, thoughtful, kind and fun. We keep begging for our legislators to do something and they do nothing. Can't we agree to ban the AR-15? Do universal background? Things that make sense and make us safer? Until something is done to stop the flow of money to politicians and their campaigns from Super PACS like the NRA Victory Fund (just one of many) I fear we will continue to see violence. https://www.opensecrets.org/outsidespending/detail.php?cmte=C00741710&cycle=2020
It's all about political leaders following the money -- straight from these blood garglers into their own pockets. Unless and until we address that, this won't stop.
I replied in FB but wanted to add it here (as I did on Dr. Richardson’s BC post from Monday): Eighteen months after JFK was shot and in the aftermath of the Civil Rights Act LBJ formed the Katzenbach Commission to study Policing in America, much of which was twisted into recent threats of “Defunding Police”.
Buried 239 pages in was a two-page dismissal of tentative Second Amendment claims to unlimited gun access; it’s my hypothesis that this followed by the assassinations of MLK & RFK and Nixon’s assumption to the Oval Office led to the NRA campaign to repurpose the 2nd to its own ends: https://www.ojp.gov/sites/g/files/xyckuh241/files/archives/ncjrs/42.pdf
While I have lived in CT for nearly 2/3rds of my life. I have a different take on gun control than many gun control advocates.
I grew up in rural Western New York where hunting was to put food on the table for many. Hunting was so sacred that the first Day of Deer Season was a school holiday.
There is no way an assault weapon is for anything, but to kill people. You certainly can't eat any animal that it has killed.
Let the hunters have their rifles and if you feel the need for protection carry a handgun, but for God's sake ban assault-type weapons and the carnage they unleash! I have both my vaccine shots and am looking forward to life getting back to "normal". Mass murders were not on my wish list!!!
Penfield here, with NRA-issued Marksman & Marksman First Class medals issued when I was at Boy Scout Camp Massaweepee on Tupper Lake. As former Senator McCaskill said this morning, “Please let’s regulate guns like we regulate driver’s licenses!”
I'm not sure you have a different take, though I also grew up in rural Upstate NY and my dad had a couple of hunting dogs for awhile. Maybe that's it. :) I do think that no gun should be in the hands of some people who are a danger to themselves or others.
This is sad, frustrating, and makes me so angry that our legislators DON'T DO ANYTHING! A friend was a friend of Lonna (Tralona). He described her as wonderful, sweet, thoughtful, kind and fun. We keep begging for our legislators to do something and they do nothing. Can't we agree to ban the AR-15? Do universal background? Things that make sense and make us safer? Until something is done to stop the flow of money to politicians and their campaigns from Super PACS like the NRA Victory Fund (just one of many) I fear we will continue to see violence. https://www.opensecrets.org/outsidespending/detail.php?cmte=C00741710&cycle=2020
It's all about political leaders following the money -- straight from these blood garglers into their own pockets. Unless and until we address that, this won't stop.
I replied in FB but wanted to add it here (as I did on Dr. Richardson’s BC post from Monday): Eighteen months after JFK was shot and in the aftermath of the Civil Rights Act LBJ formed the Katzenbach Commission to study Policing in America, much of which was twisted into recent threats of “Defunding Police”.
Buried 239 pages in was a two-page dismissal of tentative Second Amendment claims to unlimited gun access; it’s my hypothesis that this followed by the assassinations of MLK & RFK and Nixon’s assumption to the Oval Office led to the NRA campaign to repurpose the 2nd to its own ends: https://www.ojp.gov/sites/g/files/xyckuh241/files/archives/ncjrs/42.pdf
Wow. Historical perspective. After we couldn’t do more nationally post-Newtown, I lost a lot of faith in humanity.
I see that same pain whenever Chris Murphy speaks to the issue (which is not infrequently).