Safety in sensible gun regulation

A key phrase in the Second Amendment is "well regulated". Even the NRA - those shills for gun manufacturers and archaic right-wing philosophies - would admit that.

Two types of guns exist: single-action and double-action. Single-actions guns allow the killer to load and fire a bullet without manual intervention. This allows a bullet or multiple bullets to be fired with a single squeeze of the trigger. Double-action guns require manual intervention for each bullet to fire: Load and cock.

Outlaw the ownership or possession of any single-action gun except for the police and military. That would reduce the availability of all guns whose expressed purpose is to kill human beings.

Bolt-action hunting rifles and single-shot shotguns would remain legal. Handguns that require cocking the gun to fire each shell remain legal. That should satisfy hunters and people who like to play Cowboys and Indians with deadly force. The rest of us can send our children to school less worried that our kids will be splattered all over their classrooms.

Jim Arneberg

Hoffman Estates