Congress is tone-deaf on guns

Obviously the tragedy in Roseberg, Oregon’s mass shooting, is sad and quite chilling. What a deranged mentally ill person bent on hurting innocent people is capable of.

Yet the clarion of gun control in the past and present can be expected to fall victim to a tone-deaf Congress. This incident is an anomaly and not the case for gun control. Yes, this is tragic and frightening, but lives are taken every day throughout the country by mostly guns and by people with access to guns of many stripes.

In Fresno alone in the past several months, gun killings and violence related to hand guns has been rampant.

Common sense would have one believe, but for the love of the gun, in this country, guns would be easily be done with. This will always be a losing game; this is not a “zero sum “ game. Guns will always be outside the box or inside the box what ever fits. As they say, “It is written,” Written right into the creed we live by, and that is, the Constitution of the United States.

It was the nature of the wild west and “Manifest Destiny” that the love of the gun as the answer.

This story was originally published October 4, 2015 at 8:25 AM with the headline "Congress is tone-deaf on guns."