Don't Read Little Red Riding Hood

Guns in the United States are a topic of extreme controversy. The amount of mass shootings that have taken place as of late are both sad and frustrating. Everyone is looking for a place to point the finger, everyone is hoping for an effective solution. 

People don't want to give up their right to protect themselves. On the same note they don't want to continue to see lives needlessly taken. It is a sad day when we can't come together and find compromise.

I happened upon an image recently that I found disturbing. 

This image was produced along with a series of others by a nonprofit group called Moms Demand Action. Each image was showcasing a child holding an item that had been outlawed in the United States next to a child holding an assault rifle. The image is shocking. To see a young child holding a weapon of that magnitude is surreal, something that I would never hope to see in reality. To see something as mundane as Little Red Riding Hood banned from schools is equally as shocking. 

The book was banned in two California school districts because the basket that Red was carrying contained a bottle of wine. Whoa! Stop the presses! A classic childhood fairy tale can be banned because of an illustration, but an assault weapon can continue to be sold to civilians even though every mass shooting we have seen grace the news has been at the mercy of an assault rifle. 

As I have mentioned, I am member of the United States Marine Corps. I fully understand the rights afforded to me by the Constitution of the United States. I am not asking for the right to bear arms to be taken away from us. However, I can firmly say that no civilian has a need to own an assault rifle. They are not necessary for hunting or protecting our homes. Assault rifles are weapons of war. We do not need them in our homes. 

As Moms Demand Action have stated, "It's time for gun sense in America!"