Second Amendment needs an overhaul

When I am not fighting grammar wars writing these columns, I can be found usually awake, at my other occupation, selling sporting goods for a retailer in Kent.

We sell almost everything sports related, including shotguns, high-powered rifles, air-soft guns, BB and pellet guns. No handguns, however. We don’t have that license. Recently we have been besieged with requests to have more stock of weapons – it seems people have come under the impression that our newest president will round up a few good men and come to your house with intentions of taking your personal protection away from you.

This is as likely as me never having another piece of pizza ever again. It’s not happening, folks.

I am for the Second Amendment. I believe that the framers of the Constitution had a good idea to give people the right to protect themselves and their families in their own homes. But we need to get serious about gun control, folks, before we start seeing wackos start shooting up public places.

Oh. Why not higher mandatory sentences for criminals using a weapon in the commission of a crime? You just waved a .38 pistol in front of the guy who runs the quickie mart. Congratulations, you just added 10 years to your sentence of 3-6 for armed robbery. And for what? $76.25 and a Slim Jim?

Guns are far too easy to get in this country and we need to tighten that up.

Tell the gun manufacturers to only make and distribute automatic weapons to police and military. Hopefully we can slow the ebb of these kids getting their hands on AK-47s and other automatics that can do more damage. We can also stiffen the penalties of unlicensed sales of firearms. If you sell a gun to the crackhead down the street, then he robs a convenience store with it you should go to jail too. For as many years as Crackhead gets.

I am also torn that I sell air-soft guns. For those who don’t know, these are spring-loaded plastic pistols and rifles, which look very realistic, except for the orange plug at the barrel, supposedly to alert someone to the fact that this is a toy.

In the dark, it looks real enough. Either way, I don’t like them. Buy your kid a nice basketball or something. If you have to get your kid one of these, please don’t let them shoot it unsupervised. And if they are old enough, take them to the gun range where they can be taught proper gun safety.

Once again we need to take the shears to Ye Olde Parchment the Constitution, and tighten up the amendments that relate to us in the here and now.

We came to our senses, albeit late, and Liquid Papered those idiotic laws.

And this is another amendment that really needs to be pruned back, otherwise it will spread like blackberries, overtaking everything in its path. Yes I am still for the Second Amendment, but I am even more in favor of using common sense when it comes to firearms.