Protect Children Not Guns

 “If more guns made us safer, we’d be the safest country on earth” Pete Buttigieg.

 Look at all of the recent shootings this week alone: a teenage boy knocks on the wrong door, a woman turns her car around in the wrong driveway, too many mass shootings to list. 

Better background checks and longer waiting periods, enforced gun safety classes with updates required, like driving tests for people over a certain age, NO assault private ownership of assault style weapons. They aren’t needed to shoot deer. If you arm a teacher in a classroom, they can’t draw it faster than someone armed with an assault style weapon. 

If you live in a state where there ARE strict gun laws like NJ, your illegal guns and assault style weapons are from other states where gun laws are insignificant or almost non existent. 

NO ONE is trying to prevent you from owning a gun or driving a car. Pass the tests and the timeframes, or get a medical clearance if necessary and buy your gun. 

It’s the gun lobby donation millions to lawmakers, riling up fear and aggression in gun owners, and then arming them!  Prevent the gun manufacturers from selling military style arms to private citizens just so they can make more money. 

Gun Control Desperately Needed

My Letter to all of my Senators, Members of Congress, my Governor and State Representatives

As a member of a family of gun owners, I firmly believe in thorough background checks and waiting periods. In NJ, a police officer was required to approve any request for each new gun purchase.

Our finger prints are on file in several NJ state data bases, as we were also Foster parents to troubled teenagers. They are in the Federal system for our Global Entry travel.

Nothing can be done about the millions of guns already sold at gun shows and dumped into the crime stream. However we can stop the bleeding.

There is NO reason that ANY civilian needs to own a gun or rifle designed for combat purposes. I do not believe that restricting the sale of those types of weapons denies my right to bear arms.

A neighbor of ours has a fully automatic M16 for "competition" purposes. We hear him in his personal backyard gun range once or twice a month playing with it for about 5-10 minutes, just because he can. He isn't expecting a herd of rabid attack deer to storm his house.

I am sick and tired of the gun lobby directing the Republican Party's actions. Just to make money, the gunmakers keep scaring people into thinking someone is going to take away their guns.

That will never happen unless the 10+ million illegal immigrants are each given an armload to carry when they deport all of them.

As an Independent, I fully supported the Senator Chris Murphy's filibuster in the Senate. Not allowing people on the no fly list is just the beginning. Please wake up and listen to the Majority of US citizens. Start acting on passing responsible gun ownership.
I am sure you were deeply affected by the slaughter in Charleston. Now multiply that by 7, not even counting the wounded.

Please do what you can influence your party members! Help pass tougher SC laws and follow the beliefs of 90% of the population.

If we could buy guns in NJ with their extremely tough gun laws, then we could buy them in SC under the same conditions.

Thank you for your service.