“This election will decide whether Americans remain free” so says Wayne LaPierre CEO of the NRA. So what wouldn’t you do to defend your freedom this election? Maybe decide to shoot someone?

The deadly defense of Second Amendment rights is so out of proportion that it divides even the NRA’s own members.
There are two legacies to the gun owner’s lobby that jeopardize us all. One is the delusional owner who has unfettered access to advanced killing technology, and the second, and arguably more devastating, is intimidation.

If I show up at a town hall meeting with my legal side arm exposed — how enthusiastically will you voice your difference of opinion with me?

The idea that somehow a survivalist’s stockpile of weapons will save us from a government takeover is delusional. What is real is that same advocacy gets to set in my mind the image of their gun instantly removing my life. I have a right to protect myself against the possibility of death by bullet through gun control. You can’t legislate sanity, but you can put something on the books that makes it illegal to own unregistered arsenals of automatic guns and certainly to make it illegal to show up at public meetings with a weapon of instantaneous death.

Scott Ragsdale

Davis

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