The Buyback
January 24, 2014
Detailed by: Linda Schuster
This article details the moment in Linda Schuster and her Husband's life when they chose to give up their guns, not only for money, but as a public agreement that the danger of ownership was to substantial to ignore. These weren't the average fire arms you find in the corner of a Big Five Sporting Goods store, or even the redneck part of Walmart, rather these were memorabilia; much like the Justice League does with the gear of it's defeated enemies in the Hall of Justice. She describes each fire-arms' origin and it's deeper meaning and it's intended purpose as a dust collector and a memory file instead of its manufactured purpose.
This is merely a small event that is included in the ongoing debate of whether the 2nd amendment has stood the difficult test of time. The Founding Fathers believed that to keep the citizens safe from another tyrannical government a militia should be kept and the right to bare arms should be a natural right. They thought this was so important that they made it the SECOND amendment, right underneath the oh-so important freedom of speech/press. But what they had at the time were turkey shooters, 10 pound pistols, and muskets; not the automatic crowd killers that are present today. They did not comprehend man would be able to wield such awesome power, and to this day, we have paid for it. In the innocent lives of not only adults, but countless school children. School shootings continue to stir the gun debate.
Personally, I don't think making guns illegal will keep guns off the street, but I believe in UNBELIEVABLY strict gun regulation. For example, guns must be kept in a certain standard of safe, only certain guns should be allowed on the market, and there must be a psych evaluation before the purchase of a gun can be completed. It is rare for a situation to call upon the need for an automatic rifle, or even some extremely powerful pistols. Too many lives have been taken by guns, and few have been saved by them. I honestly would feel safer if we just went back to the imperial Japanese age were katanas were all the rage. Besides, there is less collateral caused by a katana fight than a gunfight.
This is merely a small event that is included in the ongoing debate of whether the 2nd amendment has stood the difficult test of time. The Founding Fathers believed that to keep the citizens safe from another tyrannical government a militia should be kept and the right to bare arms should be a natural right. They thought this was so important that they made it the SECOND amendment, right underneath the oh-so important freedom of speech/press. But what they had at the time were turkey shooters, 10 pound pistols, and muskets; not the automatic crowd killers that are present today. They did not comprehend man would be able to wield such awesome power, and to this day, we have paid for it. In the innocent lives of not only adults, but countless school children. School shootings continue to stir the gun debate.
Personally, I don't think making guns illegal will keep guns off the street, but I believe in UNBELIEVABLY strict gun regulation. For example, guns must be kept in a certain standard of safe, only certain guns should be allowed on the market, and there must be a psych evaluation before the purchase of a gun can be completed. It is rare for a situation to call upon the need for an automatic rifle, or even some extremely powerful pistols. Too many lives have been taken by guns, and few have been saved by them. I honestly would feel safer if we just went back to the imperial Japanese age were katanas were all the rage. Besides, there is less collateral caused by a katana fight than a gunfight.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/26/magazine/the-buyback.html?smid=tw-nytimes