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"Dear Editor:
The renewed and vociferous arguments from the gun-grabbers in the wake of the Arizona shootings for more restrictions on firearms and ammunition reminds me of an incident nearly a half-century ago, when I was in nursery school. For some reason, it stuck in my mind. Since I was 5 years old at the time, I think it’s apropos to recount the story in kindergarten language:
“Every day we had a play time. We played Legos and made forts. In the toy box was a plastic bear. Everyone wanted the bear in their fort, so we grabbed for it. One day we started shouting and fighting over the bear. The teacher got mad and took the bear away. We never saw it again. Everyone was sad.”
Those who wish to abrogate the 2nd Amendment and curtail other freedoms are taking the teacher-in-a-nursery-school approach: "A few of you can’t play nice and not cause trouble? Then no one should have those rights and freedoms."
Alexis de Tocqueville argued that "liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith." Benjamin Disraeli echoed nearly the same sentiments. Without religion there is no morality, without morality, society devolves to chaos no matter how many laws are erected and enforced. When we are moral however, laws are unneeded.
The problem isn’t guns. The problem is a dysfunctional society that has programmed itself to create a disproportionate number of the deranged, like Jared Loughner. There is no fix for that other than a return to a religious – and as a result, moral – society."
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