This Gun-Nut has had enough.

[PD Turk]

50. Me too

I'm a lifelong firearm enthusiast and former NRA member. I left the NRA when they decided to become an extremist wing of the GOP rather than the sportsman's advocacy group they once were.

I am also the father of a 7 year old daughter and that very well could have been her school today.

I don't claim to have all the answers but I do believe this is a discussion our nation needs to have, in a calm rational manner, rather than just extremists screaming back and forth at each other, nothing useful ever gets done that way.

-I believe it is high time to subject the private sales of used firearms to the same background checks that dealers have to use.

-I believe we need to have the ability to take a closer look at the mental health history of prospective gun buyers for red flags

-I believe strongly that we should emphatically enforce existing laws regarding straw purchasers and make life miserable for anybody who buys a gun for someone who is legally unable to buy it for themselves.

-I believe we should end this damned ridiculous and ineffective war on drugs, how many people have been gunned down on the streets over that ignorant horseshit

-I believe we should set out to build a better country... a better society. We are a nation that has become poisoned by greed, hatred, violence and unnecessary poverty. When we look at the differences between us and other more civilized countries our deficiencies in social and economic justice are glaring.


We can do better than this, I know we can.