Predictable call for gun control

By Guest Column Stewart Andersen —— Bio and Archives August 27, 2015

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The call for gun control following the shooting of two journalists in Virginia was as predictable as the sun rising in the east.

Guns are an easy target. What isn't so easy to talk about, much less fix are the real causes. This was a disconnected, disenfranchised, and angry person. He needed help. He cried for help. None came. What is the primary reason that help wasn't forthcoming? Political correctness. Who would suggest that a gay black man was mentally unhinged? We have been conditioned to mistrust our own instincts and observations. And, we have been conditioned to fear the repercussions. As a result, troubled people who often are crying for help get nothing, and innocent victims get killed. We do have a problem in this country. It isn't guns, or bows and arrows, or machetes, steak knives, or box cutters. It is people who are not part of a family or a community. It is people for whom the system has failed. The answer isn't the easy fix, it is the long hard work of healing our country. Stewart Andersen