Sensible Gun Control Begins At Home Letter Of The Week From Sept. 20

Why are we fighting over gun control? I don’t own a gun, but it’s my constitutional right to do so.

My son, Alex, had no idea what a gun was until he went to day care. When he realized that guns shoot things, he started shooting everything that ticked him off. I broke down and decided to teach him about guns. He doesn’t shoot anything that lives. If he does, he loses his gun for 24 hours. This has worked wonders.

My son still gets mad and shoots the trains that wake him up, but he knows not to point guns at people. Alex does not play cowboys or indians. Not because it’s the politically correct thing to do, but because he can’t point guns at people. I firmly believe that if Alex did get hold of a real gun he wouldn’t accidentally shoot anyone. He has been taught the do’s and do not’s of toddler gun control. Alex will be 3 in December.

Don’t you think that if a non-gun-owning parent can teach a child about guns, then a gun-owning parent could do the same? Well they can, and they do.

I was raised around guns. No trigger locks, no guns in a locked case. I knew my posterior would be heated if I even thought of touching Dad’s guns. When I was 12 years old, I went to a gun safety/hunting course. When I was in the military I got a ribbon for marksmanship.

If I wanted to, I should be able to go down to the White Elephant and buy me a gun. No government should be able to take away that fundamental right. This leads me to a question. Why would anyone vote away any of their rights?

I guess that, in my naivete, I just don’t understand about guns. Jini M. Wolski Deer Park xxxx