There’s a worldwide, post-pandemic supply chain problem that’s driving up prices. As people seek a new normal, demand for all kinds of goods and services pressures supplies, many still stuck in various bottlenecks. Yet gun sales in America, unlike elsewhere, are breaking records because gunmakers take advantage of stressful, fearful times like now.
Gun lobbyists can keep changing the laws to make it easier to purchase, openly display, intimidate and use freely, while even refusing to discuss the issue, because the fear-mongering NRA mantra says that giving an inch means they’ll take a mile. Thus the militant, self-righteous gun interests play upon human insecurity as they control the social narrative and maintain the very deadly status quo.
It’s a Second Amendment free-for-all that our Founding Fathers certainly did not foresee nor intend. A well-armed militia with the muzzleloaders of the 1700s is not remotely like today’s 18-year-old very troubled boy armed with an AR-15 and large clips of ammo, who recently unleashed instant carnage on a Texas elementary school. Obviously, military-style weapons are designed to kill people, so obviously arming laymen with such has been an ongoing, bloody American social experiment that keeps violating all the rights of countless people who are now dead.
As a lifelong gun owner and hunter, I know there are sensible ways to solve this carnage. For example, if someone wants to shoot an AR-15, they can rent one and shoot it at a well-supervised gun range. America has a long history of developing and using all kinds of consumer goods safely. If problem arise, standards are developed as solutions are found. Highway and auto safety, including driver education, is but one example.
America, it’s we the people, so when are we going to show up, screaming “Enough!”
Mike Beebe
Lyndeborough