By Raleigh Perry
BUFORD, Ga. | The draconian laws that many states have passed on anti-abortion and free access to guns has to be changed. What I foresee is that the various state legislatures’ political balance will change considerably. The same will probably occur in the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate.
Perry
The anti-abortion laws will cause poverty on top of the poverty as working women and young girls have to either quit working to pay for child care, or quit their jobs and leave school to take care of their children.
Polls show that the majority of females do not want the anti-abortion laws. Meanwhile, the Congress is doing nothing but investigating things that do not make much sense.
Congress is also not doing anything about the excess of guns now in the hands of people, many of whom should be ineligible to own a gun under any circumstances.
In each of the last three years, there have been more than 600 mass shootings, almost two a day on average. The U.S. is setting a record pace for mass killings in 2023, replaying the horror on a loop roughly once a week so far this year.
If the House flips next year, and I think it will, it will be because this Congress has done virtually nothing. So then, things will change considerably.
We need to change laws on the ownership of guns, and stopping manufacturing of weapons in a couple of categories. No pistol should be manufactured to which you can place a larger magazine than it was originally made for it. We should also totally stop the manufacture and sale of AR15’s and similar guns. There should be a law against modifying semi-automatic pistols in order for them to fire like a machine gun. We should also outlaw “bump stocks” which allow the AR15 weapons to be fully automatic.
There are some people who think the gun problem is a mental problem. For sure, guns are a social problem. Regardless, when people leave the house to take their children to school, go shopping, or even buy fuel for their car, they can be putting their lives in peril because of the random shootings. That’s horrible!
I have no problem with the ownership of guns, if they are in the right hands. But now it appears that if you have a body temperature that is normal, there is no other requirement to own a weapon.
I have come to the conclusion that this country is virtually run by Wayne LaPierre and the National Rifle Association. It is past time for action. And nothing is going with this House, but I think that the balance of power is going to switch.
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