Lesson from the Canadians

No one wants to take guns away from people who own guns here in America.  What people like myself want to do is just make guns harder to get.  In Canada, for example, it takes a waiver from a wife, ex-wife, and someone with whom you are having an affair to testify on paper that you are of sound mind for owning a gun.  Here in America, we can’t even get the military to feed information about a person into discussion about whether one is fit mentally to own a gun.  Really, mental fitness IS of necessity to own a gun.  And further, I still don’t see the need for automatic weapons of any kind, nor do I see the need to alter weapons to make them shoot like an automatic.  No one is out to take guns from people who have them here in the US.  What people like myself are looking for is common sense gun ownership.

Here in the US, guns are a part of our culture guaranteed by the US Constitution that gun ownership is a right.  BUT, common sense would tell anyone that gun ownership has responsibilities just like car ownership does.  And further, those responsibilities belong to the gun owner on how a gun is used.   If you are a citizen of the US and people you know can attest to your soundness of mind and you have passed a background check including military, then there is no reason why you can’t own a gun.  A gun is the ONLY thing designed for one purpose and one purpose only.  It is to kill that which is living.   It extends from civilian use to kill animals as much as it is for military use to kill people.  Now, I am against killing in general, but just because I am against killing anything living doesn’t mean I want to force my values onto others.  What it means is that if you want the right to own a gun you have to earn that right.  People you know have to attest that you will be a responsible gun owner, otherwise, you have no right to own a gun.  And this is my thinking on the subject.  This won’t remove the guns out of the hands from those who have them, but loopholes in gun laws need to be closed so that only responsible citizens can have them.  If you can’t show yourself to be responsible toward others, you certainly have no right t own a gun.  And in MY thinking, this really IS all that matters.  This is something our neighbors to the north has learned and I think it’s a lesson for every nation to learn.  Peace.  I am Brother Ralphie writing from the Angels of Life Institute.  Brother Ralphie works from his study for the promotion of Peaceful living and inner Peace with God. He calls this the “Sanctity of Human Life Movement.”