America is a nation built on a can-do spirit.
We accept challenges and rise to the occasion.
But if we can harvest the ingenuity and willpower to send a man to the moon, why can’t we do the same for dramatically reducing gun violence in our country?
Take a look at “America’s Shooting Gallery,†which we post each weekday on GunGuys.com. Look at all the killings and injuries caused by guns.
Why do our elected officials hide behind the mantra of the Second Amendment, as if our founders planned to Constitutionally ensure the creation of a violent nation?
We devalue our own freedoms if we succumb to a feeling of numbness towards our culture that inculcates violence. And we surrender our democracy when our country enables the gun indsutry to design, manufacture, distribute and sell just about any gun or weapon — without even the most basic and sensible regulations — just to get a little profit.
That’s not the promise of America. Rather, it is a blemish upon our proud heritage.
We are a nation of great courage and innovation.
Surely, we can summon the willpower — and political will — to reduce gun violence by changing our attitudes, behavior and our beliefs that guns are sacred when they are in fact just consumer products that need to be regulated for the public good.
If we can put a man on the moon, certainly we should be able to save men and women from needless gun deaths and injuries here in our own country.
That’s an achievable goal, if we dedicate ourselves to achieving it.
