It is true: Guns do not kill people, people do. People who kill people pull the trigger and get arrested; the firearm is evidence.
For decades, we have been led to believe that the way to gun safety is to arm everyone with more powerful weapons. The result has not been more safety. Quite the opposite: there are more guns, which are more powerful, leaving people to march for their lives.
"lf the guns are taken away, only the outlaws will have guns." This theory has not been tested as even the smallest regulation of firearms is not given a chance by legislatures to bring change. The result is many more outlaws are killing even more people, and people are marching for their lives.
And the people who could bring about change, legislators, wait for the news cycle to subside fearing loss of campaign donations while people march for their lives.
It is time for legislators at all levels to join the marches for universal firearm registration and waiting periods, for restricting high-powered and high-capacity firearms to constitutionally established state militias, for keeping people from "falling through the cracks" with funding for education, job training, and mental and emotional health programs. March for all of our lives in schools, entertainment venues, churches, in the neighborhoods, and in our homes.
Elders of the country will be supporting the efforts of the students who created the March For Our Lives, and we will be voting.
Dave Johnson
Milton