THE CARNAGE MUST STOP! DO YOU HEAR ME? WE'VE GOT TO GET RID OF THE GUNS!

     We've gone from angelic, little children in Connecticut being shot to death in their school classrooms...to innocent police officers - minding their own business - but being murdered while they eat lunch in a Las Vegas restaurant...to still another rampage in a school in Oregon where two high school students are dead - including the student gunman - but still...nobody in Congress...and nobody in state legislatures...are willing...or able...to pass the necessary bills in this country so that guns are taken out of the hands of people who should not have them.

     It is becoming all too frequent in America that people are being killed by an individual with a gun...who otherwise would not have the opportunity to murder.  The deadly school shooting on Tuesday, June 10th, 2014 at Reynold's High School in Troutdale, Oregon was the 74th shooting at an American school since the Sandy Hook Elementary School bloodbath in Newtown, Connecticut on December 14th, 2012.  That's more than one shooting every school week over the last 18 months.  And let's not forget all the other shootings that have not been at schools.

     If you're a regular reader of The Controversy...you know I believe that NOBODY...NOBODY...in the United States of America...should be allowed to have a gun...a gun of any kind.  But I understand that is not realistic...not at all possible...and that it is not in tune with the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.  So be it.  It's obvious that I lose that fight.  And I will have to accept the fact that guns are here to stay.  But that doesn't mean we can't regulate them so that only certain people...completely, medically and psychologically tested, sane people with no mental issues whatsoever...can have access to guns.  But how do we do that?

     There has to be universal background checks.  Gun permits should not be granted for a minimum of 90 days...if not 180 days...after a person applies.  We must have positive proof...with the most intense scrutiny...with the best possible discovery, investigation, inspection, examination and analysis...that a person is not purchasing a firearm...so that he or she is going to use it...to kill another person...or to massacre...and slaughter...dozens of people.

     Laws must be passed so that only a minimum amount of ammunition can be bought every 60 days.  And guns with magazine compartments of more than a few bullets...should be outlawed entirely.

     I've said it before and I'll say it again.  Guns are bad.  Guns are evil.  And anyone who uses a gun...to take the life of another person...is in some way... mentally deranged...and should not have been permitted to purchase a gun.

     I'm tired of pointing the finger and blaming those who support gun rights.  I'm sick of criticizing and jumping down the throats of those who own guns.  Gun violence is killing our kids and murdering innocent people from young to old.  Everyone in the United States must come together in order to keep our schools safe and our entire country safe.

     How many more families have to be devastated by a shooting?  How much more blood has to be spilled?  How many more lives have to be claimed?  Everyone in this country - those of you who don't own guns and those of you who do - need to contact the Congressman in your district...and you need to tell him or her - whether they are a Democrat or Republican - that they must come to an agreement that will eliminate access of guns to the wrong people. What is it going to take for a law to be passed?  We've got to do something... and we must do it now.

     How many more people have to die?  Must there be a school shooting everyday...instead of every week?  Let's hope not.  God forbid, let's hope not. God help us if that were to happen.  God help us now.  Maybe He can get Congress to do what is right.

     We must get all firearms...all guns...off the streets...and out of the neighborhoods and homes...where the madmen of America can get them.  We must stop the carnage in our country.  If we don't...death by bullets...will be more and more common...and living as a United States citizen...living as an American...will be hell.  And that's no way to live.

     And that's The Controversy for today.

     I'm Gary B. Duglin.

     "We'll talk again."

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