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Life is cheap

On March 14th many thousands of high school students walked out of school to protest the slaughter of their fellow students in the far too frequent school shootings that have occurred in the recent past and the failure of their elected representatives to pass laws to protect them.

A number of schools have threatened students with disciplinary action from detention to suspension. Some schools even locked gates in a failed attempt to keep students in. If you have felt the need to do this, you are also miserable failures. Your students have become the teachers.

I have been a gun owner for many years. I was also once a member of the NRA, until I realized it represented gun makers more than me. If you need a semiautomatic rifle with a 30-round clip to hunt, go back to the range and get help. If you’ve bought into the paranoia that you’ll need it when ISIS comes up your driveway, you need another kind of help. If you are among the few willing to admit you want to have it because it’s a lot of fun to shoot and looks neat, how many children have to die for your jollies?

The NRA opposes expanding background checks, lowering age limits and limiting the sales of the most dangerous guns because these changes would cut into profits. Life is cheap when it’s someone else’s.

Richard Tobin

Wellsboro

Submitted by Virtual Newsroom

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