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Dear Editor:
People who hate guns can’t seem to understand why people who don’t just want to be left alone. Perhaps this will explain it.
Surveys from Pew, Harvard, and Northeastern indicate approximately 72 million Americans own guns. On the afternoon of March 22, while 71,999,999 of those estimated 72 million were at home or otherwise engaged in normal, day-to-day activities, ONE was not.
For some reason, that ONE – Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa walked into a grocery store and opened fire. He and he alone murdered 10 people in a grocery store in Boulder, Colo. Then, right on cue, the media puppets, the Hollywood hypocrites and the president of the United States declared the other 71,999,999 gun owners accomplices, in need of having their firearms confiscated and banned. They were not there, they did not participate, they did not approve of or help promote that one man’s subhuman actions, and yet they are to be punished and could potentially have their property confiscated. How, precisely, does that logic apply?
In this country, people texting while driving now kill hundreds more annually than a years’ worth of lone gunmen. Where are the demands that cell phones be banned?
If a drunk driver weaves his or her car into the oncoming lane and kills 12 kids in a youth basketball team bus, does that make you somehow complicit because you had a bottle of wine or a six pack of beer on your shelf? Are you prepared to have your wine banned and your beer confiscated because some idiot got drunk and hit a bus? Are you prepared to be told that “as a result of that bus incident” you’re only permitted to own only two bottles of wine or two cases of beer because someone in Washington decided “no one really needs more than that”?
Those of us who value the Second Amendment and hold private property as a result would like to know the answer to that question. We don’t understand why you aren’t guilty by association the same way we are or how you can stand by and watch that happen.
In the month of March, the same month as 10 were murdered inside the King Soopers grocery store, 32 were murdered in the streets of Chicago where firearms have already been banned. Where is the media and Hollywood and LeBron James and the president on that?
More importantly, where are YOU?
Mike Pflum
Martinsville
People, like Joe Biden, who wish to blame all gun owners for one bad Apple; are the first to allow others with a gun to protect them. I ask Joe and Kamala Harris to refuse the protective services of their Secret Service personnel.
If you notice, Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa is a Muslim. So many times the expression of “White Supremacist” is bellowed out by the Liberal Media when it comes to group shootings. This is not the case here as this man hates the people he shot. It is the person and their attitude that needs to be stopped not the gun itself.
One only needs to look at Hunter Biden. Kicked out of the US Military for drug use, he lied on a 4773 (the form to fill out for a background check for firearm purchase), under the section about drug use, and was cleared for the purchase of a handgun.
Failure of the government? Yes. And an additional failure of the Department of Defense to properly notify civilian agencies of a conviction & discharge of an individual for illegal drug use. Had DoD provided proper notification(s), younger Biden would have been refused the purchase, and would be facing federal prosecution for lying on the 4773.
This is not DoD’s first failure of reporting to civilian authorities and an ex-service member being cleared for the purchase of a firearm when they should not have.