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Marchers must get message on guns

To the Journal editor:

And the Spirit of Christmas Present said, “They are man’s and they cling to me, appealing from their fathers. The boy is ignorance, the girl is want. Beware of them both and all their degree, but most of all beware of this boy, for on his brow I see written which is Doom.”

After reading about the 500 youth marching in Marquette and all the other marches, ask yourself this: If a teenager wants change, but can’t count change, can’t clean his or her room, goes totally blank when asked what an assaut weapon is, eats Tide pods or smokes insect spray, and is so traumatized by an Elect Trump sign that they need to spend 24 hours in a safe space with coloring books, then what would give that teenager the absolute and total moral authority, not be be debated, disagreed with or criticized when it comes to removing the Second Amendment or major changes to gun laws?

I say, to any teenager in Marquette, demanding to do away with the Second Amendment, wanting more gun control and other changes, not a problem.

You can start with this change. No more getting Nov. 15, the first day of gun deer season, off. You must spend that day in school and if you call in sick that day, you must make it up, and you can only go into the woods hunting when you’re 21 years old, armed only with a muzzle-loading flint lock rifle.

As for that teenager pictured on the front page with the sign that said “21st Century weapons with 18th Century laws,” if that teenager truly believes that we have 18th century gun laws in place, then he or she must believe anyone can have a 1780 bronze 12- or 18-pounder muzzle-loading cannon, loaded with grapeshot or double canister shot, that could kill 100 people with one firing, in their front yard.

Don Wolf

Iron River

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