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Control guns—keep kids alive
Children weren t meant for tar
get practice.
What’s wrong with us?
Why do more than 5,000 children
die from guns every year?
Why do we still tight some form of
handgun control if it will save our
children?
I’m sorry, but it’s not right to see
children dying from gunshot wounds.
This isn’t Bosnia; itrs America.
I am a gun owner. I hunt and enjoy
the freedom 1 have to own a weapon.
I hunt with my shotgun.
I also have a permit to purchase a
handgun if I want to.
I’d like to someday. I’ve shot hand
guns before and really enjoy target
shooting with them.
But I worry that guns in the hands
of children were not meant to be.
Little boys and little girls should not
have guns. They should be playing
witn otner toys.
It’s not right to see children pray
ing to God, thankful they were al
lowed to live through another night
safely, as I saw on CBS’ “48 Hours”
last Wednesday night.
Children should not have to go to
bed wondering if they will be alive in
the morning. It brings new meaning to
“if I die before I wake.”
Yes, the scene was in the hellhole
called Chicago, but be it Chicago,
Dallas, New York, L.A. or Lincoln, it
doesn’t matter. Children are the same
everywhere.
I wonder if those anti-handgun
control people have ever seen the
results of a bullet at close range to the
head.
I have.
It was a suicide I covered. I don’t
need to describe the scene, except to
say I won’t forget it.
In the CBS program, children de
scribed seeing friends being shot and
killed. This isn’t television, but real
life.
If people can live in relative secu
rity from handgun deaths in Great
Britain, why can’t we? Are we that
Children should not have to go to
bed wondering if they will be alive
in the morning. It brings new
meaning to “if I die before I
wake.”
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paranoid of our freedoms that we
want to risk our children’s lives?
Are we that barbaric in our ways
that we are willing to put our children
at risk?
I’m not talking about the punks
and gangbangcrs, but the children
here. It doesnrt have to be a drive-by
shooting, but children playing with
what they think is a toy. Except these
toys don’t shoot water.
Yes, I am a gun owner who be
lieves in gun control. I will teach my
children about weapons and what they
do. I’ll be strict with them when teach
ing them about rifles, shotguns and
handguns. And I’ll keep guns under
lock and key.
but no amount oi education or
locks can be a sure prevention.
Children will always be curious.
They will always play with things
they are told not to play with. Some,
unfortunately, play with guns. They
don’t realize what they are doing until
it’s too late. _
In today’s world of glorified vio
lence, real death is abstract to chil
dren.
People don’t die on TV; they re
turn in some other role. When people
die on TV, it’s clean. In real life it’s
dirty.
I speak from experience. Before
moving back to Nebraska, I worked
for a newspaper in Dallas. Shootings
there were as common as the setting
sun.
I’ve seen the victims, the grieving
relatives, the injured. It’s a reality
check to sit in a room with a mother
asking her about her teen-age son
who’s in the morgue. It’s not some
thing I like to remember.
That scene haunts me now that 1
am a parent. It’s not something I ever
want to go through. As a parent, I
worry more and more about how vio
lent society is. Not just the violence
we see on television from Miami,
Chicago and Dallas, but the violence
we can see here in Nebraska.
In a recent nationwide survey by
the Department of Housing and Ur
ban Development, 20 percent of high
school students surveyed say they
carry some sort of weapon to school.
Eight percent say they carry a hand
gun as the weapon of choice.
W ith the number ofhandguns avail
able to the public, it’s easy to see how
children can get hold of a handgun.
Therein lies the problem. Stricter
handgun control on children and on
their parents is a necessary answer to
the problem.
Colorado has taken a step in the
right direction by making it illegal for
18-year-olds to have handguns. Ne
braska tried to do it last year by mak
ing parents responsible. I don’t see
anything wrong with that if it will
protect our children.
When put in terms that some of the
anti-gun control people can under
stand, children are our most valuable
possession. I will do everything in my
power to protect my investment even
if it means losing a little bit of my
freedom.
My children are worth it.
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