It all comes together in the end-LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Each day I look at the TV or internet news, I see more beat-around-the-bush talks and more innocent people dying from gunshot wounds.

America, it’s too late to control guns here. The 2nd Amendment protects our right to bear arms. That type of thinking was okay when that document was printed. There were wild animals and outside forces to cause us harm.

Over the years the 2nd amendment should have been revised. Now it’s totally out of control, because people read and understand it in different ways. Just like the Bible. People read it and come up with what they think a certain verse means.

We have a problem in America because our laws aren’t tough enough. If a person takes another life by firearm for no legal real reason, they should be put to death within a week. No sending them to prison, where taxpayers have to pay for their upkeep for years to come. Just put them to death. Maybe if that starts to happen, the criminal element will think twice about pulling a trigger.

If you look around the world, a lot of the countries we call Third World nations have better gun control than we do. You get caught stealing, you lose a finger or a hand. You deal drugs, automatic death sentence. Gun down someone not in self-defense, immediate death sentence. Sure we see teenagers packing AK-47s, grenade launchers, etc. They’re being carried for survival of their people and land against rebels. American teenagers carry them for protection against a bully, because of a dysfunctional family. They feel cool or safe. It’s status.

In England, police officers don’t even carry guns. When needed, they call for those who carry guns. See, they got their laws straight from the start. When English people came to America, it was all the bottom class. Mainly criminals sailed those ships. I believe it was a choice: Get on the ships or stay here in prison.

So all of the people who are so proud of their family background in America didn’t know your ancestors were probably criminals. They didn’t put that in the school textbooks. That’s why everything bad about America now days is consuming our country and was passed down through the generations: greed, equality for people and gun control.

Why use taxpayer money housing drug dealers and people who commit murder or rape?

Just put them to death within days. Rapists should have something else done. Then if they survive that, put them to death. I’m sure the crime rate would drop.

As I said, it’s too late for gun control in America. Crack, meth and automatic weapons—all those things were put in place by our government to eliminate certain people. Unless you are living under a rock, you know our government did experiments with LSD on our soldiers. Now it has blown up in their faces, just like the AIDS virus. All were supposed to be contained to certain people. They can’t control the gun, so let’s set back and let certain people kill each other off. Now it has spread across America to the wrong people and places—the rich and upper middle class.

Now our government wants to control guns when a white school gets shot up. That’s been happening in the ghetto for years and no one cared. See, that’s what’s wrong with America. Certain children mean more than other children. We have no equality in America.

All our children should have the same chance, and shouldn’t be judged by their skin color before they’ve had a chance to prove America different.

I may have strayed from gun control, but I believe it all comes together in the end and starts with the children of America. Who do you want running things when you’re gone?

Charles Burris

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