The American Dream: two cars, a house, and a gun in
your dresser drawer?

Maybe owning a handgun is not exactly a dream, but
is is fast becoming an American tradition. When the
first lady of the United States is in the habit of keeping a
tiny gun handy in her bedroom and little kids are
receiving martial arts training in Atlanta, it becomes
pons obvious that the gun mania is sweeping to its
imits.

No person can condemn people for wanting to protect
themselves and their family but the fact remains that
there are just too many guns lying around. There are
other means of protection and they shoud be employed.

A gun in every cupboard means that murder weapons
are available for anyone caught up in moment of anger
or hysteria or for an unstable person wanting to satisfy a
whim.

Gun control may not dent their use in organized
crime, but will limit fatalities that occur just because a
gun was at somebody’s fingertips.

Hopefully, Ronald Reagan’s near assasination will
awaken him to the need for strong gun contol.
Too many presidents, celebraties, and ordinary people
have found their end to be the result of a bullet.

Gun control cannot be postponed any longer.

But, of course, tradition is hard to change.

 

 

 

The Other Press April 2, 1981

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