GUNS, GUNS, GUNS, AND MORE GUNS

The Following article, “The president of one of the nation's oldest gun manufacturers, Cp;t Manufacturing Co., closed down his Connecticut factory Thursday morning and bused 400 of his workers to the state Capitol so they could personally urge lawmakers not to pass gun control legislation that they say could risk their livelihoods. Dennis Veilleux, president of the Hartford-based Colt's Manufacturing Co., said even though he has spoken with legislators and Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's staff about his trepidations several times, he believes they don't truly understand the financial ramifications of the legislation being proposed in the wake of the deadly Dec. 14 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown.” Goes to today’s problem with reality.  Since the Sandy Hook shooting, over 2600 more people were killed by guns in America. While not advocating eliminating jobs, one has to wonder whether retaining the jobs of 400 people, while important, is worth the cost of lives of thousands over time.  What is a reasonable price to pay for a life?  America spend thousands of lives and billions of dollars to avenge the loss of life taken by the September 11 terrorism.  Perhaps the owners of Colt should have their research and development departments look into ways to manufacture devices designed to save lives rather than take lives.  One might suggest that the 400 workers put their energy to use finding ways to make guns safer and ways to prevent unauthorized users or owners from actually firing a weapon.  If Colt is manufacturing weapons that are, in fact, harmful to society, one has to ask why those jobs should be protected in any way.