Day One Hundred and Thirty Eight: Two Faced

I try my best to see both sides of the arguments.

So recently my state has become pretty embroiled in this gun control debate. We just passed a pretty big piece of legislation that limits the purchase of high capacity magazines. For some reason this pissed a lot of people off because apparently they think that this is infringing on their second amendment rights. 

The second amendment gives the American people the right to form well-armed militias and keep and bear arms. It doesn’t say it gives “untrained idiots may have not only firepower but the most dangerous and obnoxious firepower possible.”

I have a lot of friends who are super pro-gun. My own family is very pro-second amendment. We’re all hunters and farmers and military in my family. I know how important it is to them to own guns, lots and lots of guns in some cases.

But as an educator, I would feel a lot safer if we had fewer guns out on the street. Guns are like cars in some respects: any idiot who can read can get one and use it. That doesn’t mean that they have any right, or any education regarding guns.

All I’m saying is that guns are great as long as the people holding them aren’t idiots. So, you know, police and military should probably be about the only ones packing.

Yeah.

Challenge to my Readers:

It’s hard sometimes, but often the best way to really win an argument is to understand what the other side is saying. Research, learn, understand.