After yet another mass shooting at a school on March 27 in Tennessee ― the 129th so far this year ― it’s high time for American gun owners to get their priorities straight.
All the hollow hopes and pathetic prayers proffered by delusional conservatives have had zero effect on reducing the carnage being inflicted on America’s schoolchildren, but taking real action might infringe on their firearm fetish. These people are sociopaths.
I own guns and I know how to use them, but I don’t believe that more guns make us safer as a society, especially in a state like Utah, where virtually anyone can obtain a concealed carry permit without ever showing proficiency or even firing a single practice round.
Even the mentally ill have access to guns, because presently, there’s no way to screen them out. Does that make you feel safer? We might as well give driver licenses to crazy people who have never driven a car.
Unlike many people, I’m not so paranoid that I need to be packing all the time, so I don’t. I pity those who live in perpetual fear ― they scare me more than the criminal element does ― but the crazies are out there, and too many of them are armed.
By the way, conservatives, no one is coming for your guns, but it’s way past time to enact reasonable gun laws for everyone’s safety ― especially our children.
Utah legislators: Where are your priorities? What will it take for you to forsake your sociopathic ways?
David E. Jensen, Riverton
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