To the Editor:
Another mass killing of innocent people — this time children included. This has to stop.
The MAGA Republican representative from the Nashville district brushes it off as just another “What can be done?”
What can be done is gun control.
Assault weapons can be banned, along with any high-capacity weapon or bump-stock. The Second Amendment specifically states that Congress shall not ban firearms for a well-regulated militia — and does not include most of the people who own guns. Our well-regulated militia is the National Guard, not the vast majority of people who own guns.
Ordinary people who are using guns for self-defense don’t need one or more assault rifles to protect themselves. A handgun will do the job. Hunters can use a bow and arrow. Any wimp can pull a trigger — it takes a real man/woman to pull a bow — and it takes a lot more skill.
So what to do about the Supreme Court? Biden should stack the Supreme Court with three liberal justices and bring the subject of gun control back to the court using the above reasoning. Congress could then pass a law limiting the Supreme Court to no more than 12 justices. And there should be a law about justices who try cases but are not impartial, but that is a topic for another time.
MAGA Republicans who have sold out to the NRA should be called out. They are not interested in serving the public, but rather in getting campaign contributions so they can stay in power and get more money. They have blood on their hands.
One other idea: President Joe Biden should work with the various sports teams to give free game tickets to those who sell back their assault-style weapons — or any guns.
Several years ago I published an editorial in the Journal of Family Practice stating that the firearms pandemic in the U.S. is simply an addiction to the power that guns project. The testosterone rush that comes with this sense of power alters the brain structure and turns on the reward system in the brain. Owning guns is like any other addiction.
W.E. Feeman Jr., MD
Bowling Green
