Gun control zealots contributing to the problem
Gun control zealots contributing to the problem
President Barack Obama’s views on our Second Amendment rights have caused gun sales to go up. People are fearful that there may come a day when guns or ammunition cannot be legally purchased. The number of gun dealers by the way, has increased to keep pace with the demand.
CNN reported only days after Obama’s election that gun stores across the country were seeing sales double and triple. Gun store owners and customers alike feared new restriction so they were loading up, so to speak.
More than a couple members in my own family, who never before dreamed of owning or shooting guns, have become gun owners as they have learned more about the reason behind our Second Amendment and why the founders thought gun rights were so important in keeping a tyrannical government in check. And the founders were on to something as we now hear Obama and Hillary Clinton promising executive action to curb our constitutional rights.
You could even say that gun control zealots are contributing to gun violence. Not only by glorifying the sicko killers with 24/7 news coverage but by their immediate knee-jerk response to politicize gun violence. And round and round we go. Gun sales go up giving criminals a broader inventory of guns to steal and the nut-jobs on psychotropic drugs, most of whom lack a father figure in their lives see a way to memorialize themselves through this repeating tragedy.
Restricting Americans’ access to guns and ammunition will not work, so maybe it’s time to approach it from another angle.
Michelle “Mikie” Kerr
Waikoloa