re: Biker Shootout at the Twin Peaks in Waco, TX

I've always been a supporter of the right to own a gun. Not to shoot people, but to perhaps hunt if you needed to. Guns to me are merely tools. 50 years never had to pull one on anybody. Just a freekin gun to me.

But, not a day goes by where I don't open my news apps and read perhaps dozens of news stories both local and national. What do I see too much of? Senseless gun violence. Husband shoots wife and kids then himself. The school shooting several years ago. The aurora theatre shooting. Ferguson MO. Baltimore. Even in my community which used to be a very safe place, I am reading about shootings on almost a daily basis. Drunks getting in arguments and killing each other. Even family members, like the other day this young guy violently beat his mother to death over an argument about his school grades or some stuff like that. There were at least 38 murders in Baltinore in the month of May.

It's really getting ridiculous. Not just all about guns but violence in general. There is something wrong with how people are thinking these days. There is no way in hades I would ever be a cop. They get little respect even though they may face life and death and make decisions in those situations and are often blamed when the situation turns out like the public didn't want it to. Collateral damage is unfortunate, but damn. Just don't be there and be in that situation.

This is a very unfortunate ordeal. I am beginning to wonder if typical Americans should have gun rights. But, it would be impossible to take guns away from us. There are just too many of them and they are easy to get legally or illegally.

Anyway, hope Waco gets this mess worked out soon. Releases some investigative information to put this behind us and move the communities forward. Just a thought.