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Letter: 10 people died and gun rights being attacked
Op-Ed · July 14, 2016
Five officers were killed in Dallas. This weekend five people were killed in a car accident near Ladora, Iowa. Four were very young children. Both incidents are truly horrific but in both cases five people died.
After the shootings in Dallas there was and continues to be an uproar about so called gun violence.
President Obama was on television trying to speak for all of us, or at least that’s the way he puts it, saying this type of thing has got to stop and we therefore need more gun control laws.
Obama, the preachers, the politicians, and all the other anti-gun crowd posture and pout, rant and rave, and protest.
At least they call it protesting when in fact it is usually rioting and looting plus provoking additional violence.
So what about the five that died on the highway? Are their deaths somehow more acceptable because guns were not involved?
When will Obama make a condolence statement or fly to Iowa to meet the grieving family? Which deaths are of greater importance?
Why isn’t anybody demanding stricter driving regulations or more driving laws? I don’t think there will be a sit in at the Capitol in Washington because five people died in an automobile accident. Five died, four were children but they apparently don’t matter as much as the police officers.
Transportation in this country is needed. Our country would not continue to function without our cars and trucks. Therefore, the carnage on our highways is apparently acceptable in as much as nobody particularly comments on it. Of course the numbers on the big overhead signs will remind us of how many have died too date.
The five police officers died in the line of duty. They took an oath to serve, protect, and preserve the laws of this country. They did their duty and they died for this country and they should be and will be honored for their service. They died protecting our Constitutional rights which includes the 2nd Amendment right to own firearms. They and all the other officers and veterans who gave their lives before them died to preserve our rights, our laws and our way of life. There is a price to be paid for freedom and there always has been. When people die for no good reason it does not mean they died in vain. Would we be honoring their sacrifice by destroying the 2nd Amendment?
Ten people died and it is too bad that it can’t be unacceptable.
Rod Hanson
West Branch
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