Unfortunately, I believe, as do many law abiding gun owners, that to regulate firearms the way cars are regulated would simply lead to the reality of illegal arms used in crimes as stolen cars are so often used in crimes. We have a moral decline that will not be regulated away. A media that glorifies the criminal and vilifies the hero, and a country that would rather complain about the second amendment that uphold the first. Schools are generally gun-free zones, including Sand Hill Elem, and still school shootings occur. Yet, in Israel, where part of teacher training is firearms training, there is more danger on the street than in the schools. While Australian mass shootings have declined, the individual family has paid the price in home invasion, and violent crime against the individual has soared. Homeowners in Britain are more likely to go to jail for defending themselves against home invasion than the intruder, regardless of the level of force used by either. Canada had to close their program because it was bankrupting the country. Do we have the courage to stop this? No. Because we would rather believe that the bigger government with more laws would protect us than believe that the original plan for political assignments to be temporary and government to be small is a better one. Do we want to stop this? No. Because we have become a nation of takers, and we would rather impose more restrictions on our freedoms than responsibilities on our citizenry. We, the people, would rather cave to the endless cavern of wants, than accept the fact that our overwhelming whining has led us to where we are, and would rather sell out to China than stand up for ourselves. Do we, the people, have the courage to stop this kind of travesty? I don't know. I know we have the ability, but frankly, I don't think we have the courage. I think we, the people, have become a nation of cowards, and what was once a moral majority has become a moral minority, trying to live as isolationists in their own country in hopes that we don't become victims. My husband and I gave 50 years of combined service to this nation, and our only child serves proudly now. Now we grieve for the country that was, the country where children could play in the streets, and doors didn't need locks, and we didn't have to put cops or metal detectors in schools, and if a person were mentally unstable enough to try and hurt someone others would step up and stop him. Do we have courage left in this nation? Yes! By God's own hand we were given a nation to defend, and there are those who will not by increased regulation and limitation upon our freedoms, but by education, and morals, and the honest learning of the history of our nation since well before the civil war. Nicholas Kristof is a well-known journalist, but he certainly doesn't speak for me, and I would like to believe I still have the courage to stop anyone, anytime, from committing the kind of horrendous act that took place yesterday in what should be a place of innocence and honorable education.
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