Just something I like to look up concerning any candidate, serious or otherwise...
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ON GUNS
It is no secret that I am opposed to guns. I am no enemy of gun owners, but no friend of
guns.
Our lives are constantly wrought with terror and violence brought on by guns, on a
massive scale. Guns are not for protection, they are for killing. And by purchasing a gun,
one gains the power to kill without learning the responsibility to control it. In the year
2000 alone, over 30,000 people were killed by guns in our country, most of them legally
registered.
It’s unlikely we’ll get guns off the streets, so we need to focus instead on where the
violence is coming from. By offering proper education and treatment of drug use, mental
conditions, and depression, combined with a crackdown on gang organizations and gunownership
qualification, we may begin to stem the tide of firearm deaths in this country.
And only though extensive qualification procedures and strict ownership laws can we
keep guns away from their post dangerous place: the hands of children.