Bushmaster Weapons For One And All

My wife teaches first graders how to read. She loves her kids and enjoys helping her students each day. She is wonderful at what she does and always strives to do what is right for her kids. She is not, however, probably a person that you want to arm with a handgun to keep other people safe.

I understand that we are all traumatized and frightened by the never ending list of shootings at schools and public venues. I am as well.

When I hear Rick Perry, the Governor of Texas endorsing teachers being armed I think it is the most ridiculous thing I have heard.

Let's just talk about not if students would be ostensibly safer with their kindergarten teacher packing heat. Ask yourself is this what we want? Do we want to be the society that tells our little children that they are so unsafe, that the world is so unpredictable that even their schools are not safe. Can there be anywhere that our children can feel safe? Do we really want to be the country that throws are hands in the air and says we cannot stop these gun shows where anybody can buy any kind of gun so the best way to protect ourselves is have our schoolteachers armed with weapons.

It just makes no sense.

Here are some things we can do.

Lets stop saying that people have a right to assault weapons. What about the public good.

Lets understand that to drive you have to pass a test. To be a securities analyst you need to pass a background check and a drug test? Why not to own a gun.

What happened to the NRA being responsible.

Lets stop giving lip service to mental health and make it available for everyone who needs it.

There are ways to make this better, we do not have to give up. And we do not need to arm our teachers. The message that sends to our children and to our society as a whole is catastrophic.

Want to be made sick? Look at total gun deaths in other Western Countries per year. Numbers of less than 100 prevail. In America 10,000 or more. There is no justification for this. None. Zero.