America is simple: We live in a society in which the highest priority is the preservation of life; the freedom to live! We have, through our ingenious efforts, developed an instrument that reflects man's greatest inhumanity to man: the handgun, the expressed purpose of which is to kill people. There is no other purpose. The least we can do is to see to it that persons who buy and/or possess the handgun meet minimum qualifications, such as age, mental competency, residency, no previous felony crime with a gun, not having killed anyone before. Is that asking too much for each of our fifty states to ensure? Is it not our first responsibility as government to do all we can to enhance the public's safety? In the name of God, we must love our fellow man enough to insist, if this deadly instrument must be tolerated in our society, that we take as much precaution as possible to protect the safety of our public. This can be done most effectively by licensing, registration, [instituting] a waiting period before purchase, and by requiring each of the fifty states to administer such provisions through their departments of public safety.
This gun lobby's special interest must be exposed to the American people for what it is; a very tragic but effective, very deadly but powerful, group of combined industrial giants in the ammunition and arms industries along with sportsmen clubs, hunting clubs, wholesale and retail gun and ammunition dealers and NRA members throughout the country who realize that if meaningful laws are enacted to stop making the handgun so easily accessible and available, sales will go down…. Most major anti-gun control groups are sponsored and encouraged, directly or indirectly, by these special interests.
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