After all the school shootings and other mass shootings, including one that put my town on a shelter-in-place order April 18, it is now time for all those good guys with guns to take a stand. Demonstrate how you care about America by advocating for reasonable gun reforms.
Please distinguish yourselves from gun extremists who believe any restrictions on gun ownership is a “slippery slope” to the government taking all your guns away. If you’re a reasonable person who uses a gun for hunting or for home defense, why should you mind if you have to pass a background check, complete a waiting period, register your weapon and have a license to prove your ability to safely store and use your weapons? Why should you want high capacity magazines or assault weapons? The answer is you should not.
We unfortunately have none of these laws in Maine currently. But a culture of gun safety should be what all Americans, gun owners included, should strive for.
Erin Lichtenstein
Yarmouth
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