It May Be People, But It Includes Guns.

       Hey, listen to this from Mother Jones news this morning. After the Sandy Hook tragedy last year Bloomberg News predicted that by 2015 there would be more gun deaths than automobile related deaths. So how's the prediction going? Well there are 15 states where that is already happening. And for all of America, the total number of traffic deaths stands at 32,885, but total gun deaths stands at 31,672, and counting. While traffic deaths are dropping, gun deaths are climbing. Not a sterling report.
       Are these numbers comforting? Not for me either, and the trend is even more worrisome. But be of good cheer. The federal government is------doing nothing, but the states have become----- more lenient when it comes to gun ownership. The race is on. Will America accomplish this heretofore unimaginable feat? Will traffic deaths become just a footnote on the news while gun deaths become the champion grim reaper of our times?
       I'll bet you never thought that such a goal was attainable, did you? I'd ask you to do your part to help reach this milestone, but it looks like we've got more than enough support to make our goal a reality. Ya know if twenty of our kids and six adults were killed in a war, we'd be screaming for the war to end. And we'd be writing our legislators, both in Washington and our state capitals. But we seem to think it's okay so long as it's our own people killing our own people.
       Well actually it's not so much that we think it's okay as the gun lobby, and that certainly includes the NRA, so long as they tell us it's okay, that it's not the guns that are killing these kids, it's people that are doing the killing. As though the "people" weren't pointing guns at the kids and pulling the trigger.
       Look. There's nothing wrong with a person of sound mind and even temper owning a gun or several guns. The problem comes into play when persons not of sound mind or even temper get their hands on guns. Now, nobody thinks that any law or set of laws can eliminate all gun violence. But is that a reason to make it ever easier for those who shouldn't have guns to get their hands on a gun? We all need to step back a minute and think about how we can set safe standards and still preserve the second amendment to our Constitution.