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Letter: Guns do not clean up water, educate people
Op-Ed · June 18, 2015


Why do we need such unlimited freedoms to own guns more than we needed the young lady recently killed in Coralville and the thousands of others we will sacrifice this year as collateral damage?


Those who keep guns in the hope of helping the next revolution forget that we will need to organize a new system of managing our common needs and resources after the shooting is finished. Guns won’t help us gather the knowledge and wisdom we will need to get through that process.

Our current issues with governmental tyranny stem from laws that protect harmful business practices over the citizens who are harmed. Guns aren’t going to help clean up our waterways, or educate people well enough to avoid needing public assistance, or encourage wider participation in democracy.

The 2nd Amendment no longer offers our best pathway to a better form of government, and the collateral damage is heartbreaking.

Let us repeal, or regulate.

Laura Twing

Tipton