Dear Lee Jordan,
When you have a kid, you NORMALLY will try to do what's best for him or her. I say "normally" because I have come across one too many stupid parents who either don't care and think that the child will just pick up whatever education from the thin air and SO, at some miraculous point know the difference between good and bad, right and wrong, or stupid parents that have either never grown up or are plain antisocials, and think that, well, they can create some society of their liking and their kid can live in there. Or well, the peopl who teach their kids not to adapt to the world, to the environment, but to force others to adapt to them. So, aside from these kind of mentality and behavior, parents would normally want their kids to be the best people they can be, be the happiest people in the world. For a while now, most parents, in order to raise positive, happy children, able to interact in a positive and constructive way with the world, have taken away violent games and violence promoting toys. The thoughts and activities reinforced in the children are Peace, Team Work, Love and Respect. Most Daycare and kindergardens I know do not keep such toys as toy-guns or even little soldiers, nor they egg kids to play such games. As a matter of fact, teachers are instructed to stop such activities if the kids initiate them.
I understand and fully support this policy. There's too much bloodshed, too much senseless violence, too much death, too much anger in the world to raise our kids to continue it. I am concerned, however, at the way the United States of America reacts at gun-bans and add the posession of guns as a right for every citizen. HOw can you teach your kids to respect life, respect other people's integrity, love peace and seek the peaceful solutions when you keep a gun at home? Of course I understand thatit's kept there for "defense", "security" purposes, but is it so? Sure many people can argue that guns have saved their lives, but how many have been lost? A gun means that the way you will seek to save your life is by taking another one. This shall not be.
Governments are elected to keep their people save, to give them security, to assure them that no one will harm them. What's then the purpose of the Government and the Law if each citizen has to make the Law by themselves? What security, when a burglar could be tempted to break into every single home in a department building to walk away with an arsenal?
Guns should be banned, security should be reinforced by the Goverment, through effective Laws and the effective, swift application of them. Parents should think of their children, of the future they want for them, either a happy one or a convulsed, paranoic one, before they vote and when it's time to demand politicians to think of them before thinking of their personal pet projects. Health, Education, Social Security, Peace, Opportunities. These should be the things we should all wish for our kids and these should be the things we should seek to secure. Guns kill health by injuring people, because you buy them to ultimately injure someone, whether you admit it or not. Guns go against education because it teaches you one way of life: kill or be killed, while without guns you can broaden your chances and think of many other things. Add to it, guns take you directly and indirectly, to wars and wars destroy schools, kill teachers and students. Or plain and simply, play to the hand of a maniac who takes them to school and squeeze a few rounds into innocent teachers and students. Guns kill Social Security by taking the funds to try and keep violence tamed, or by eating up all the budget on injured people or people in jails, and jails themselves. Guns kill peace by logical consequences. Guns kill opportunities by killing the people who could reach them, by putting in prison the shooter, by marking them, by allowing mobs and gangs to flourish and become stronger.
Guns do nothing for people. They should all be banned. They are but a sign of hopeless, ingorant, afraid weakness ready to explote into a mess, and when it does, who are the biggest victims?
Guns are not the solution. I beg you all to think about it.
Love to All,
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