Caliper_Mi
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I am preparing a letter to my legislators. It is sure to join a pile of others they are getting, but that's how things are I guess. I plan to send this to both State and National legislators. Looking for feedback. Too long? Well worded? Too much? Open to comment, or feel free to copy and send to your legislators if it's GTG.
Guns aren't the problem.
Dear Senator/Representative
Like everyone else in the Nation, I was shaken this past Friday by news of the massacre in Connecticut. How someone could ever consider harming innocent schoolchildren is beyond me. Some are using this tragedy to call for more gun regulation or even bans. I am writing today to state that I do not support additional gun regulations.
We have seen in other countries where guns are heavily regulated that people will just steal guns or use other weapons to commit their crimes. Even in China where private gun ownership is outright banned, sick individuals have attacked schools armed with knives and killed many children. I feel that it is time we stop living a fantasy that we can simply leave a building full of the most important members of our society unprotected. With a society of 300 million individuals there are always bound to be several among us who are not stable and do not respect the same values the rest of us do. Believing that we can simply lock the doors to keep out a criminal bent on violence is not realistic. Further, we have seen in many similar scenarios that as soon as the criminal is faced with an armed defender instead of defenseless victims that the criminal will typically surrender or turn their weapons on themselves. Yet, police are typically miles away, giving any criminal attacker plenty of time to commit their crimes against our children. I feel that this is a clear signal our schools should have some form of on-site and armed police protection. While this idea may be distasteful to some, the fact is that having one or several armed individuals on site to defend the school would have drastically changed the course of events in Connecticut, possibly stopping the criminal in the halls before he reached a classroom. I hope you will consider this path in the coming days and weeks as the Nation debates this issue.
Sincerely,