Are we not exhausted yet? Two school shootings two days apart. The same questions . . . What would motivate him to do such a thing? Were the guns purchased legally? The constant barrage of whining about sacrificing our rights is just too much. Here are some different views to help us stop for a moment and consider how we got here.
When there’s skin in the game for all weapons owners including myself I think that people will have a different outlook. – Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo
Let’s start at the place this conversation always begins – the police. Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo said it best when interviewed on Face the Nation. Chief Acevedo believes that elected officials at both the state and federal level must do more than offer prayers when it comes to protection from gun violence. He believes the American people, including gun owners, want gun sense, gun reform and keeping guns in the right hands. He suggested that using the ballot box to take this matter out of the hands of politicians who’ve done nothing is the way to ensure that the will of the American people is actually carried out. Is that the same as gun control? Is that an attack on the 2nd Amendment? Continue reading
