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Guns usually prompt passionate and occasionally unreasonable arguments over the constitutional amendment that says Americans are entitled to \u201ckeep and bear arms.\u201d<\/p>\n

The issue shows up during election season when conservatives argue that progressives want to \u201ctake away your guns.\u201d Well, maybe some\u00a0ultra-progressive<\/em>\u00a0politicians want to disarm Americans. They are swimming against a riptide of opposition to that notion. That won\u2019t happen. Why? Because doing so would essentially eliminate the Second Amendment to our Constitution.<\/p>\n

I consider myself to be a good-government progressive, which means I am not a flaming progressive who wants to rewrite the Constitution. The one we have with its 27 amendments (so far) suits me more or less just fine.<\/p>\n

What I do want to happen, though, is for our political leaders to find some legislative remedies to curb the gun violence that keeps erupting on our streets. We sit in our suburban Dallas home each day and watch the news tell us of shootings in Dallas, or Fort Worth, or in other suburban communities nearby. Children are stricken by random violence; some of them die from the wounds inflicted.<\/p>\n

Then, of course, we all hear and agonize over the mass shootings that kill so many innocent victims.<\/p>\n

Some pols want to put more guns out there, believing they create a safer society. I disagree with that notion. I want fewer guns, but to get to that goal requires some remedies to take these weapons away from individuals who don\u2019t deserve to carry them.<\/p>\n

Does any of that violate the Second Amendment? It might, but only if it goes too far. Thus, I want our Legislature or our Congress to seek legislative solutions that keep faith with the Constitution.<\/p>\n

The amendment that our founders wrote is a bit of a mishmash, if I could offer that critique. It speaks of a \u201cwell-regulated militia\u201d and then declares that the right to \u201ckeep and bear arms\u201d must stand.<\/p>\n

Our courts have ruled that the amendment says the right to bear arms belongs to us all. I accept that.<\/p>\n

However, as a law-abiding, tax-paying American patriot, I believe a legislative solution to the gun violence is out there. It\u2019s somewhere in the weeds. We just need some courage to find it and to craft it and to enact it into law. I will not listen to gun lobbyists who insist that there is no solution to be found.<\/p>\n

Get busy, politicians. We need some leadership from you.<\/p>\n

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