GUNS

Every time there is a mass shooting in this country, there are calls for stronger gun laws. And no matter how many kids, how many ordinary citizens, are shot to death, we don’t get stronger gun laws, and clearly, we never will.

My solution:

Weaker gun laws.

Okay, we should still have laws keeping children from buying firearms. We should still screen for firearms when boarding airplanes or entering courthouses. I’m not nuts.

But when it comes to D.C.-- the White House, the Supreme Court, the Capitol Building--there should be legalized concealed carry.

Why? Because the people who are creating, enforcing, and interpreting gun laws do not live in the same world the rest of us do. They cannot imagine what our lives are like.

We need to help them do this. We owe it to them.

Of course there would be opposition. NO!!! We’d be assaulted by lunatics and fanatics! We’re high-profile targets!

Well, the 1,728 victims of U.S. mass shootings since 1966 weren’t high-profile. The Sandy Hook and Uvalde children, the Brown University students, the First Baptist Church members, none of them were high-profile, and all of them are dead.

Plus our government officials are supplied with other forms of security, good men with guns, our taxes pay for them, so even if a maniac showed up he’d probably be taken care of.

I don’t see a reasonable argument against this solution. Of course, it will never happen, any more than sane, responsible gun laws will be enacted, because this is America.

Still, I would very much like to have it discussed in Congress. The debate would be enlightening.

To our President, our Cabinet, our Supreme Court Justices, our Congresspeople:

Stand with us. Join us in our Utopia.