The Milford students who won't be able to get a first-hand look at a piece of American history are victims, too. Today, we must think of other victims, those in Oregon who lost their lives to a sick child who, for reasons that will eternally escape us, had access to a semi-automatic weapon. We have never been in favor of an out-right ban on weapons, but the time has come to at least think about it, to ponder what we would lose if we denied adults, and through them children, access to weapons that can kill with alarming ease. We would lose nothing as a society. In the language of conservatives, which so many in this country claim to be, the good of the majority of society far outweighs the good of those who would go around armed to the teeth.
Guns do kill people.
Oh, yes they do. Had that boy in Oregon gone to school armed with a bow and arrow, it's rather unlikely that so many people would have been killed or wounded. Even a six-shot handgun would have made his spree difficult. It's time we took semi-automatic weapons out of the hands of children. First, we have to take them out of the hands of their parents.