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Choice: Military rifles or democracy?

First, because of the intractability of the gun culture for 40 years, and a Supreme Court that bases its firearm opinions on the musket, I propose that all of the K-12 and college and university teachers in the country tell Congress: pass all necessary and reasonable gun safety and control laws to eliminate the gun culture, or we will call a national strike on Sept. 1, 2022 that will last until it is done.

Forty Years: From “Shining City on a Hill” to Dismal Swamp Filled with Blood.

The killing rooms at Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas, descried by the bodies of two teachers and 19 fourth graders, were saturated with gallons of blood and hundreds of pounds of shattered bones and torn flesh. We know it because authorities asked the parents for DNA samples so they could identify children and their body parts. In other words, heads were missing. Emergency room doctors say adult bodies contain at least a gallon and a half of blood and that 10-year-old bodies may contain as much as a gallon. It is within reason to say as much as 20 to 25 gallons of blood soaked the killing zones.

According to authorities so far, the killer bought two AR-15 rifles, as many as 60 magazines, and 1,657 rounds of special “expanding” and hollow-point .223 ammunition which happens to be illegal to use on battlefields because of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, the Hague Convention, and Geneva Convention warfare rules. warfare.

As a Marine Corps officer in the 1950s I was responsible for teaching the rules of warfare once a year to my command, once a heavy machine gun platoon, and later a rifle company. So far, I have been unable to find out the name or store of the federal licensee who sold him more than $6,000 worth of killer equipment. The Ar-15 runs about $2,000, magazines are at a cheap $8 each, and 2,000 rounds of this special ammo would run more than a dollar each in many firearm stores. He also wore armored tactical gear which comes at a high price. Where did this 18-year-old killer get $6,000 – $8,000 to buy this killer equipment? Has anyone asked the grandfather? Where the hell are these national journalists who want to know all the answers?

Ed Raymond
Fargo, North Dakota