There's a persistent myth in America that "guns make you safer." Recently there was a sad news story providing a powerful illustration of the falsity of this assumption. A Methodist pastor in Texas arrived at his church on a Sunday morning. Entering the building he discovered an unarmed fugitive hiding in the church. The pastor, being armed, pulled out his pistol to apprehend the fugitive who wrestled the gun away from the pastor. After shooting and killing the pastor the fugitive escaped in the pastor's car. Add to this all of reports of accidental shootings and suicides enabled by he presence of a gun.
The tragic mass shooting at a medical clinic in Buffalo, MN., illustrates the need for sensible gun laws. A few of us have banded together to create a new organization to work for better legislation. In these initial stages, this has all happened this week, we now have a website. (see the link below). Our organizations name, gunsafe.mn, is a nice play on words. My guns are in a gun safe in The Little House. Many of the hunters I know are in agreement that there significant legislative steps that can be taken for sensible and fair gun laws. Click on the link to see our values statement. https://www.gunsafemn.org
Takk for alt,
Al
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