opinion

Letter: NRA must stand for ‘Not Real Accurate’

Let me start by saying, I have my guns and you have your guns. But guns used to be for hunting game and we were called sportsmen. Which meant that there was a chance our three or four shells in our guns would either bag us that fowl or a four-legged animal, or we would miss and the wildlife would get away. That is what makes the hunt a sport. You win some and lose some. But 30 or more rounds in a gun does not make us sportsmen.

Would you go to a football game if the kicker got 30 chances at a field goal? What fan would go to a baseball game, if the batter got 30 strikes before he struck out? Or a basketball game where the players have 30 chances at making their free throws? It’s not much of a sport anymore.

But if that’s what the NRA says what sportsmen want, then the NRA must stand for “Not Real Accurate.” Don’t get me wrong. I want to keep my guns and you want to keep yours. But, when a child can’t go to school, friends can’t go to a concert, families can’t go to church without being sprayed by gun fire, it’s time to start talking. But they don’t. Why? Are our elected officials that ignorant? Are they that apathetic? It’s time to start talking. So the question is, do we have the guts to stop this madness? Or, are we all going to stay in our apathetic sleep? Call your elected officals. If they don’t have the guts, then let’s make them get some and start talking. It’s time.