I Have the Solution for Gun Violence

MESSAGE FROM A FRIEND--“Gun violence problem solved. How about we treat every young man who wants to buy a gun like every woman who wants to get an abortion … mandatory 48-hour waiting period, parental permission, a note from his doctor proving he understands what he’s about to do, a video he has to watch about the effects of gun violence, an ultrasound wand up the ass (just because). 

Let’s close down all but one gun shop in every state and make him travel hundreds of miles, take time off work, and stay overnight in a strange town to get a gun. Make him walk through the gauntlet of people holding photos of loved ones who were shot to death, people who call him a murderer and beg him not to buy a gun. 

It makes more sense to do this with young men and guns than with women and health care, right? 

I mean, no woman getting an abortion has killed a room full of people in seconds, right?” 

-A Tweet from a friend of mine. 

(Heather Parton blogs under the pseudonym Digby at the blog site she created: Hullabaloo and also writes for ourfuture.org) 

-cw

CityWatch

Vol 13 Issue 81

Pub: Oct 6, 2015

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