I disapprove of allowing anyone except officers of the law to carry a gun. Because no two people can possibly be in complete agreement due to having had different formative experiences, no two human beings can completely understand each other.
There are subjects on which both can pretend to be in complete agreement, thus keeping the common everyday doings in function, but complete agreement on a subject of paramount importance to both is too much to hope for.
Though disaccord is important to human society by granting a choice of solutions to be advocated for critical problems, to spice the debate by allowing each contending advocate to carry a gun seems to me uncalled for.
This especially in a country that has spent centuries fostering a volcanic culture by sanctioning violence.
Dean Sparks
Lucerne
