October 2, 2017
Rep. Dana
Rohrabacher,
101 Main
Street #380
Huntington
Beach, CA 92648
Dear
Congressman,
Re: Las
Vegas
Okay, I
don’t know the facts. I just know the headlines. But it seems clear from the
fact of “at least 50 dead” and “more than 400 injured” that the weaponry
involved in the latest shooting outrage must have been more deadly in its firepower than any civilian should
have had in his possession. I don’t know who the man is or was and I don’t care
what his motivation might have been; he should never have been empowered to
inflict this much human casualty.
Congressman,
it is well past time for you and your colleagues to stand up to the gun lobby
and say: “Enough!” Your latest action—to ease access to sound suppressors in
the name of saving the hearing of those who enjoy target practice—is yet
another move in the wrong direction. This latest incident brings with it a
moral obligation to restore sanity to the purchase and possession of firearms
in the United States. To do otherwise, capitulating to the extremist demands of
lobbyists who represent the interests of the gun industry, is criminally
irresponsible.
I am angry on behalf of an army of the needlessly slaughtered and the needlessly injured
innocents—and I don’t mean just in Las Vegas: I mourn, still the children of
Sandy Hook, whose deaths are still unaccounted for by the U.S. Congress.
In their
name, and in the name of future victims to be spared, I demand that you act!
Now!
With
anger replacing my usual respect,
Peter
Clothier, Ph.D.
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