Editor,
In New York two brothers, both of them police officers, had 10 years of spotless records as cops. They got into an awful argument. One brother shot and killed his drunk brother. If anyone, weeks before, could have told these two brothers when they were arresting other people that one would shoot and kill the other, how would they have believed it?
If anyone, weeks earlier, could have told Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius that he would shoot and kill his girlfriend, how would he have believed it?
If anyone, years before, could have told Albuquerque judge Gerald Cole that he would shoot and kill his wife and himself, how would he have believed it?
Homes that have guns have twice the risk of someone killing someone else and three times the risk of a suicide than homes with no guns. A gun in the home is far more likely to be used to shoot oneself, a family member or friend than to shoot a stranger breaking in.
We all are capable of terrifying violence. Good and evil are mixed together in all of us. Do NOT swallow the lie that only bad people will use guns wrong. None of us is immune to killing someone, even a close loved one, in a moment of insane rage. Because I know that about myself and because I aim to live non-violently toward all people, I drink no booze. I own no guns and never have.
Sincerely,
Don Schrader
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