There is still a lot of talk about gun control but at least now President Obama
and Senator Dianne Feinstein are doing something about it. I have long believed in gun control and remember my undergraduate debate class when I took the position of gun control. The last time I saw any news on the NRA was when Charlton Heston raised a rifle, “From my cold dead hands.” I thought I was watching “Planet of the Apes” again. Now Heston’s statement would be applicable if he was buried with his gun.
I recently
taught a lesson on the Constitution and the amendments. The favorite amendments
always include the Second Amendment, the Right to Bear Arms. Somehow I do not
think the Framers (Madison, Franklin, Hamilton…) of the Constitution meant for innocent
lives to be lost. The United States had just ended the Revolutionary War, the
war for independence. To fight the American Revolution took ordinary farmers,
the Militia or citizen soldiers, to help the Continental Army win Independence.
Minute men had to be ready to help fight the war. The Framers did not foresee automatic
weapons. No one needs to have automatic weapons. Let’s hope that Obama and
Feinstein are successful with their gun control legislation.
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