Gun Control v Gun
Rights
I am going to be honest with all of you right now on my
thoughts of this matter. Truth is that I
don’t care one bit. I am over it! Here’s what I know. Every week it seems there is some kind of
mass shooting. Everyone’s reaction is
the exact same. Democrats scream gun
control, and Republicans scream gun rights.
The problem is that No One is doing Anything about it. Nobody!
When can we all just be Americans? There is a problem, and I am sick of hearing
about a political party’s agenda. I want
to see some politicians that are more concerned about the lives of the American
people than reelection. What has
happened to us? Do you all remember what
happened after 9/11? We all came
together.
I have news for all of you, and that news is we all live in
the same place. I am 100% certain that
Republicans and Democrats want to protect their own families. It’s time that we all came together to
protect each other’s families. Let’s
face it. Most of us have political
ideologies based on our parents, friends, and wherever we grew up. If you had been born somewhere else with
different parents, you would probably think something totally different. So you grow up Democrat or Republican, and
you grow up hearing exactly what that specific party believes. You come to accept that as the gospel. Guess what?
Neither side is perfect, and most of it is simply BS anyways. It’s just something for us to cling to,
complain about, and spend useless time on.
Meanwhile our children are getting murdered on a weekly
basis. Dang it, I am sick of hearing
about the Middle East. We have a problem
right here. Dang it we have war right
here in America and it’s high time we call it what it is. Here’s what a quick search on Wikipedia
found: “A comprehensive report by USA Today tracked all
mass killings from 2006 through 2017 in which the perpetrator willfully killed
4 or more people. For mass killings by firearm for instance, it found 271
incidents with a total of 1,358 victims.”
February 15th 2018 the “New York Times” published
the following:
“When a gunman killed
20 first graders and six adults with an assault rifle at Sandy Hook
Elementary School in 2012, it rattled Newtown,
Conn., and reverberated across the world. Since then, there have been at
least 239 school shootings nationwide. In those episodes, 438 people were shot,
138 of whom were killed.
The data used here is from the Gun Violence Archive, a
nonprofit that began tracking school shootings in 2014, about a year after Sandy
Hook.”
I don’t know about you, but I have three children. I don’t want any of them to have to worry
about this, and I want to protect them.
That’s my job, but I can’t get any help from my government. If our government’s job isn’t to protect our
children, what is their job? That’s the
dang question right now.
Here’s what I know.
Americans aren’t going to turn their guns over to the government. Plus there are over 300 million guns in
America that we know about. Lord only
knows how many guns that are hear illegally.
So, you are not going to be able to collect all of those anytime
soon.
Here’s a couple of things that seems to be common sense:
1. Let’s reinforce
the laws we have. Before we talk new
legislation regarding guns, let’s handle what we have. Otherwise we can pass some more laws that no
one will adhere to.
2. Then we can talk
about new laws that might help.
3. Parents or anyone
else that supplies someone with a weapon that is used for a shooting should be
held just as liable. I am mainly talking
about the parent of the Waffle House shooter, but this goes for anyone that
does this.
4. If someone is
deemed mentally unfit, they simply can’t have a weapon. There is no time for political correctness on
this one.
Other than this, I have no idea. I want to see the Democrats and Republicans
sit down together and figure this out. I
don’t want to hear about immigration, Russia, or anything else until this is
figured out. Look men and women of
Congress and the Senate, it’s time to put your differences aside. I just want you to start making some
progress. I don’t want to hear any
statements or empty promises. I want to
see results.
I am not just talking about guns because look what happened
in Toronto today. I have several friends
up there, and I was scared to death when I heard the news. Look who cares what religion, race, or belief
someone has. The beautiful thing is that
if I don’t like what someone else believes, I don’t have to believe it. I can believe whatever I want, and I don’t
have to hate the person who believes opposite.
Thanks to my career, I have friends from all over the
world. I have Muslim friends. I have friends from Iran, Russia, and Egypt
to name a few. I’m a Christian, and I
love Christ with all my heart. No one
has to believe like me for me to respect and love them.
I get it. I know the
world is flawed and filled with sin. I
know that the world will never be perfect not even close, but we can all try to
make it a little better. We can listen
and learn from each other. If we really
try to put our heads together, we can create change.
This is my plea to all of you. Can we stop identifying with some political
ideology and simply start identifying as a human being on planet earth? Our children depend on us to protect
them. Let’s come together to do just
that.
End rant,
Coach Travis Mash
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