I am no longer so naive to believe we can have a world where there are no weapons. I know violence will always be with us, as is pain and death until the world is fully resloved unto God. So the second admenment is something that is firecely fought over as to weather it should remain as is, or be altered in some fashion in our consistution. Perhaps however, maybe we are looking at this from the wrong angle.
How much Gun rights can we afford? Who is going to pay for the Gun Shot Wounds of our uninsured youth with illegal weapons, not all of them gangs mind you. Who will pay for the police time and investigations in various murders that take place and often remain unsolved simply because the time limit on how much time a case can take, is gone and it sits left undone, pressed out of the way by more fresh murders. In the meantime, other less serious crime (so called soft crimes) are often neglected, or not reported because unless there is compelling evidence from the get go by witnesses or those pressing charges so there will be a win for the prosecution, cases simply are not taken up but left to get cold.
So in keeping these rights, we have to figure our how we are going to pay for those who abuse the rights, the clean up after wards (blood is bloody hard to get out of anything!), the legal papers and court time, the medical issues, and trauma centers, the physical therapy for recovery from wounds, and the consent education of how to really use Guns in the proper way. We should then go ahead and have guns and care of them taught right along side sex education, how women give birth, and the dirty side of sharing body fluids.
I will never advocate taking away of rights. What I do propose is to have us all taught how to care and take responsibility for these. For too many of us, rights are an entitlement we have no clue as to how to take care of and use for the best benefit not only of self, but our community. So lets have the NRA help with the health insurance issues and education budget since they will now have a part in how all things are run that way too. They already do you know, at least this way, we get money, and admit it up front and stop hiding from the truth....
Nancy Louise
Post a Comment