Friends,
My
heart goes out to the families and friends of the victims in the Umpqua
Community College tragedy and the community of Roseburg. This was an act of
a
criminal who may have been under the influence of mind-altering
pharmaceutical
drugs. Stricter laws have never stopped someone’s intent on harming
others.
This school was already legally a gun-free zone!
I have
said it before and
I will say it again: I believe that an armed society is a safe society.
Labeling
a public place a “gun-free zone” will not create a non-violent
environment for
citizens; in fact, it does the opposite. By creating this illusion, we, as
a
country, are putting targets on the backs of our children, our families and
our
selves. While the President has already used this tragedy to feed his
anti-gun
agenda by saying that these killings have become "routine", what he
fails to mention is the truly routine pattern of these terrible crimes is
that
they happen in gun-free zones. Places where people have been rendered
defenseless by the government.
We
should really be focusing on the root of the problem: mental illness. I
urge
everyone to educate themselves on mental illness and the drugs that doctors
are
so quick to prescribe, because knowing the signs and side effects of these
could save lives; banning guns will not!
Today’s
victims and their families will be in my thoughts and prayers, and I will
continue my work to raise awareness of the dangers of gun-free zones and
the
dangers of the drugs that are prescribed.
I
will not let the media make this about guns. Join me on Saturday because we
will be talking about these dangers and how an armed society is a safe
society.
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