3 Reasons I Went From Being A Gun Nut To Supporting Gun Control

[mikehiggins]

3. From my early youth, maybe 10 or 11 I wanted a 9mm German Luger.

At various times I came close (once had a chance at buying one valued at about 100k but just didn't know it so I let it slip by) but if you were to pin me down I could not say why it was such an obsession. Never bought a handgun, or a rifle or an AR-15, etc., etc. All I wanted was a Luger.

So then a bunch of little kids were gunned down by a man with a gun. I, like all of us, had already lost the Kennedy's, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X and hundreds and hundreds more. It was the image of a little kid, maybe less than 50 pounds, getting shot with a round that literally tears the limbs off soldiers in Viet Nam, Iraq, Afghanistan that turned my head.

I think we should take the position that no one should have guns in this society. Screw the NRA and all the others who are happy to see the mangled bodies of our children if it helps sell more weaponry. Okay, they don't give a shit about the kids, I don't give a shit about their phony arguments pushed on people who listen to slogans rather than facts.

Should we disarm this nation. Absolutely. How hard is it to figure that out.