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Saturday, April 27, 2013

To Live and Die in America


Look - I'm all for people protecting themselves and their rights to own a gun. But just like we need a license to drive and insurance to drive a car, there should be some sacrifices made.  And while I think background checks at gun shows and online would've been a small step in saving thousands of lives, who we elect plays a bigger role in the debate, because when 90 percent of the American public agrees that we should have background checks, and our voices are ignored, there's something terribly wrong with our government.

1 comment:

Ryan said...

You'd think having school children being slaughtered by a semiautomatic weapon would make the gun owning public realize that enough is enough and something has to be done. But these idiots are more focused on loosing their own weapons then the safety of their own children. Unless they're going to be bringing their ak-47's to school with their children then I just don't see how owning these guns will protect them from another psychotic with a gun. When this happens again, and unfortunately with all these weapons out their in the hands of crazy people it probably will, these idiots have no one to blame but themselves.

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