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40 years after RFK's death and no gun control
June 6th, 2008 marks the fortieth anniversary of the assignation of Robert F. Kennedy, and today, the NRA as well as the candidates they support still feel Americans should be allowed to walk around in possession of firearms as a national right. When the Second Amendment was written there was no real infrastructure of law and order. Giving men the write to bear arms was an important freedom that enabled them to protect their family, their home, their town and country. It was never intended for the times we live in today, and the violence I’ve witnessed in just my lifetime bears witness to the failure of this policy. When I was ten years old, I witnessed the first assignation of a nationally known figure with the assassination of John F, Kennedy. Fifteen months later Malcolm X was shot to death by sixteen bullets. A little over three years later I cried at the age of fifteen at the death of Martin Luther King Jr. My tears had barely dried, and they flowed again, caused by the assassination of Robert Kennedy. Twelve years later within a span of three weeks two attempts were made on President Gerald R. Ford’s life. In 1980 the world lost one if the most prolific and talented musicians of our time when John Lennon was killed in New York City. Just over three days later an attempt was made on President Ronald Reagan’s life.
We’ve had numerous fast food shootings, postal shooting sprees, as well as sixteen killed at the University of Texas, five dead on the campus of the University of Iowa, three dead at the University of San Diego, and a long list of others including Columbine and the blood bath at Virginia Tech. When will we learn that in today’s society, not only is this “right” unnecessary and irresponsible, it is a danger to the well-being of forthright citizens, putting the power of death in the hands of the distraught, the desperate and insane? On the anniversary of RFK’s death we are at a crossroads in the leadership of this country. We need a leader who will listen to the cries of the victim’s and their families, and try to put an end to the violence, by taking guns out of the hands of the common man, while at the same time address the causes that prompt assassins to act.
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