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I am a gun owner. I have a large collection as the result of serving for many years in two different branches of the United States armed forces.

Access to weapons must be tied to the same sorts of responsibilities and restrictions I was subject to while serving in the military. Civilian gun owners should be required to pass a training class annually that teaches markspersonship and reinforces the ethics of being a responsible firearms owner. Gun owners should be subject to on demand mental health screenings administered at the federal level. All the nonsense of states being in charge of their individual gun laws must end. One standard needs to be put in place for the entire nation.

This issue affects all of us, and it is a human rights issue first and foremost. Human rights are more important by far than my individual right to have a firearms collection. That must be subject to the authority of the government, and if we do not have a government we can trust enough to decide who should and should not have access to weapons of death, we are doomed as a nation-state in the long-term anyway.

No private militias are going to solve our social or cultural deficiencies, or stop the conditions that have brought us to this point where children are constantly being slaughtered in their houses of learning, and going to any public venue in this country including grocery stores, comes with the risk of being murdered by someone whose mind had been poisoned by toxic indoctrination and cult thinking.

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