Letter to the Editor

Editor:
People want to blame gun violence on week gun control laws. Did you ever think that it may have something to do with the legal system? If you murder someone you go to prison. Has anyone stopped to realize that our military personal and our seniors have to survive worse conditions than someone in prison.

Want to stop gun violence? Bring back the death penalty, then give us Governors who are strong enough to allow the death penalty to be carried out. Let’s put God back in school. People shouldn’t have to go to jail to find God. Let’s put gun safety courses in school. Every year Congressman GT has a gun safety course available.

Let’s teach our children to respect the laws and those who enforce it. Don’t allow your children to be disrespectful to cops and call them “pigs”. Cops put their lives on the line for us every day, the least we can do is show some respect. Stop tearing down historical statues, because someone’s feelings got hurt, only to erect a statue of a criminal (George Floyd).

Let’s get back to parenting 101. Make your children work for what they want, rather than giving them everything. Let’s get rid of the electronic baby-sitters (game systems, phones, computers, and tv), and bring back family game night,

the age to purchase a firearm to age 21 is crazy. A young adult, age 18, joins the service, it’s ok to hand him a rifle and tell him to protect the country, but it is not ok for him to purchase a rifle of his own. Does that make sense? In PA you can get a JR hunting license at age 12. At age 12 you are allowed to use your parent’s guns to go hunting, you have been using your parent’s guns for six years, at age 18 what would be wrong with buying your own.

If you think changing the law from buying a gun should go from 18 to 21, then you should also agree that driver’s licenses should be changed from 16 to 21. A lot of people die in car crashes.

We have laws against drinking and driving, and people still get killed by drunk drivers. We have laws against texting and driving, people are still getting killed by drivers who are texting. So why would we believe that more gun laws will prevent people from getting killed.

How would going through the same back round check for buying ammo as you do to buy a gun help. If you were cleared to buy a gun, then clearing you to buy ammo would only be a waste of time.

You can’t believe in the Second Amendment and think that the red flag law is a good idea.

Dawn Moyer
Mill Hall, PA