Gun Control and School Shootings

I want to enter the discussion on guns and mass shootings.   My wife and I, along with another couple,  made a cycling trip to Ireland in 1988.  We spent 10 touring southern Ireland and then rented a car to visit Northern Ireland to visit relatives of the other couple.  Once we crossed the border into Northern Ireland we noticed  every police station was a virtual fortress surrounded by high fences, barb wire and obstruction s to prevent any person or vehicle to enter the area.  The first night in a B&B we heard a loud explosion.  In the morning the sky was filled with helicopters ferrying injured soldiers to a local hospital.  The IRA had bombed a SCHOOL BUS of British soldiers on a road nearby.

We are not far from that reality at the present time with all of our education institutionsvirtually under siege.  We must do everything we can to prevent such events from developingWe must protect our children and provide the needed safety.

   
The Founding Fathers, when writing the second amendment, did not have in mind that the citizens would buy and accumulate military grade weapons.  How encompassing is the second amendment?  There is no mention of specific arms that is approved for the ordinary citizens.  Does the second amendment include machine guns, grenade launchers, bazooka’s and other heavy weapons.  I think not.  What if one our school buses was bombed or riddled with bullets?  The second amendments provisions were written for self defense, not aggressive mass 

killings.  General Grant allowed the confederate soldiers to keep their side arms for self defense.

 
We need to put a stop to this nonsense and start bringing order out of chaos.  There is no need for any citizen to own anything more than a hunting rifle or two and a single handgun.Certainly there is no need for anyone to be able to buy 400 rounds of military grade ammunition without being questioned.   Or accumulate an arsenal of 20 or thirty guns including military grade weapons.  Freedom has limits.

 
Lets put our thinking caps on and solve this issue while preserving the individual right tobear arms and prevent any more mass killings. Please give me your comments.