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Saturday, December 22, 2012

Never Again

We've been inundated with the arguments for and against guns. It's the wrong argument. How do we protect our most precious and vulnerable population against unthinkable violence?

  I have a message for gun banning advocates and guns rights supporters... Shut Up.  Just shut up. Seriously...enough! Stop yelling at each other. Stop posting memes on Facebook. It's not that your opinions are irrelevant, they aren't, but think about it for a moment...you are part of the huge, knee-jerk movement that has taken attention away from any real lessons that might be taken from the horrible tragedy in Connecticut. Just stop, for a moment, set your own agenda aside, and hear me out for a minute. Please. There is no simple solution here...more guns is not the answer. Less guns, also not the answer. No amount of weapon legislation would have an impact on Adam Lanza. If he didn't have an AR-15? He still had two pistols. Every …

Tammy Osier

4:44 pm on Friday, December 28, 2012

Jeff addressed exactly what he started with: He said, "We've been inundated with the arguments for and against guns. It's the wrong argument. How do we protect our most precious and vulnerable population against unthinkable violence?" He addressed the true issue at hand - how to educate so as not to be vulnerable before another attack. No one else has really addressed it in this way. I would ask …   more ›

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