open minds?

On Feb­ru­ary 6, Oak­mont High School was on lock down be­cause a stu­dent brought a gun to school to sell it to some­one. In ad­di­tion to be­ing a block from my house, it is about a mile and a half from Elijah’s el­e­men­tary school. This is most like­ly the school Eli­jah will go to some­day. July 1, South­cen­ter Mall was locked down, with my Cous­in’s wife, and my 15 month old nephew in­side be­cause of a shoot­er. The gun prob­lem is real. You can’t con­vince me otherwise.

Since be­com­ing a par­ent my view of the world has changed, a lot. It’s prob­a­bly a lit­tle self­ish. Or was it self­ish of me to think the way I used to? I am not one to say all guns need to go. I see the val­ue in a hob­by, per­son­al pro­tec­tion, even hunting. 

But why do we val­ue our right to own su­perbly over­pow­ered weapons, over life? If we de­cide that arm­ing every­one is the best course of ac­tion, haven’t we just be­come a so­ci­ety that ac­cepts the idea of “kill or be killed” as our dai­ly reality? 

Con­ser­v­a­tives will ar­gue for the life of an un­born child, but not the life of a liv­ing one. What about my two liv­ing children?

There are so many steps be­fore ‘take all the guns’ we can try. And they may not solve the is­sue com­plete­ly, but they could help. 

Val­ue life, keep an open mind.
 

—scott clark

Flom­mist Scott Clark has no idea what to write in this space that wouldn’t be bor­ing, or about Star Trek. Copy­right © 2018 Scott Clark.

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