Not a Solution, but a Suggestion

As the late President Ronald Reagan used to say, "Here we  go again!"

The recent shooting in Orlando was a tragic and deplorable event, make no mistake about that, and I do not want to diminish that fact in any way. I too am greatly disturbed that such a thing could happen and all too frequently does happen in our nation. I would be a fool if it did not disturb me that these terrorist-style events are happening in increasing frequency. It is an understatement to say that this is an alarming trend! The fact that I was in Orlando just  a few months ago makes this all the more real and disturbing to me.

Unfortunately, it was predictable that king Baraack and queen-regent Hilary and their cronies quickly called for increased gun-control measures. They apparently are insistent that their scheme of disarming everyone will somehow prevent these things from happening. While I find it hard to believe that they really believe this themselves, I cannot help but observe that the problem with their proposals is that they, in fact, will not work. There are many reasons that this is true. I don't really want to go into this at the present time as there are many others who are expressing this point at present.

The point that I do want to make is: how do we keep these terrible tragedies from happening? As with most problems of this magnitude, there is not quick-fix easy answer. I, like everyone else, do not have the answer. I do, however have a suggestion. A friend of mine, a fellow NRA member, has a bumper sticker which reads "Our right to keep and bear arms does not make us villains!"  Instead of lumping all gun owners together, and vilifying us all when one of these deplorable tragedies occurs, and thus polarizing us and making us resist the "one-size-fits-all" gun confiscations solutions; what would happen if we focused on discovering what sets us, the ordinary law-abiding gun owners, apart from the terrorists such as Omar Mateen who actually commit these horrible crimes? In fact, as it appears to me, the only thing we have in common with these terrorists is that we own guns.

I think that an action such as this would be a giant step forward in preventing  these horrible crimes from occurring in the future. Perhaps the ordinary, law-abiding gun owners would even feel comfortable in joining in an effort that would not threaten their right to keep and bear arms, or tries to vilify them for standing up for this Second Amendment right.

Thanks for sharing this moment with me today.