Dear President #BarackObama and Mayor #MikeBloomberg,
We often hear the slogan, "Guns don't kill people, people kill people."
But that's wildly wrong. Today or tomorrow or the next day when, inevitably, a four or five year old little boy or girl finds a gun and shoots his two year old sister or brother—who will have done the killing? To my mind, no answer, logically or legally, explains this other than to say that a gun killed this innocent baby.
Yes, people do kill people, too. Out of malice, because of mental illness, while committing a crime. They murder police officers, fire fighters, babies, old men—bullets don't discriminate.
Even more so, people help others when they kill. I think it's called being an accessory to murder.
To the extent that the National Rifle Association (@NRA) actively lobbies elected officials, manipulates elections and uses a tremendous amount of their resources either to put or to keep guns in the hands of those who have no right to have them, or who are wildly irresponsible with the firearms and ammunition they possess, you have a duty to charge them for the crimes they facilitiate.
Mr. President, you said you would use the full power of your office to help the people of Newtown and to protect our children and all Americans from needless gun violence.
It would be an amazingly reassuring step if you could use the law enforcement agencies of this great democracy to pursue criminal charges against the leadership of the NRA. It would be a bright an bold step for the new year.
This is not an outrageous suggestion. We have been deluded into thinking that what's normal is normal. It's not. Now, twenty babies had to be massacred before we can begin to open our eyes. Lets not have more blood on our hands as we wait for the next five or ten or fifty or a hundred to be slaughtered.
I should hope Mayor Bloomberg, with his vigilance in fighting for gun control, could also aid in such a campaign.
Sincerely,
Christopher M. Moses
New York, NY
We often hear the slogan, "Guns don't kill people, people kill people."
But that's wildly wrong. Today or tomorrow or the next day when, inevitably, a four or five year old little boy or girl finds a gun and shoots his two year old sister or brother—who will have done the killing? To my mind, no answer, logically or legally, explains this other than to say that a gun killed this innocent baby.
Yes, people do kill people, too. Out of malice, because of mental illness, while committing a crime. They murder police officers, fire fighters, babies, old men—bullets don't discriminate.
Even more so, people help others when they kill. I think it's called being an accessory to murder.
To the extent that the National Rifle Association (@NRA) actively lobbies elected officials, manipulates elections and uses a tremendous amount of their resources either to put or to keep guns in the hands of those who have no right to have them, or who are wildly irresponsible with the firearms and ammunition they possess, you have a duty to charge them for the crimes they facilitiate.
Mr. President, you said you would use the full power of your office to help the people of Newtown and to protect our children and all Americans from needless gun violence.
It would be an amazingly reassuring step if you could use the law enforcement agencies of this great democracy to pursue criminal charges against the leadership of the NRA. It would be a bright an bold step for the new year.
This is not an outrageous suggestion. We have been deluded into thinking that what's normal is normal. It's not. Now, twenty babies had to be massacred before we can begin to open our eyes. Lets not have more blood on our hands as we wait for the next five or ten or fifty or a hundred to be slaughtered.
I should hope Mayor Bloomberg, with his vigilance in fighting for gun control, could also aid in such a campaign.
Sincerely,
Christopher M. Moses
New York, NY
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