Assault rifle ban

Wouldn't it be great if everyone could look at every situation objectively? If we could understand others point of view instead of projecting our passionate responses blindly?

My husband is one of the many people who are so passionately objecting this assault rifle ban. I understand his reasons, sort of. He thinks there is going to be another civil war and the government is trying to take away the people's weapons. I think anyways. That is the little bit he will let on. As I've mentioned before, he isn't great at expression.

I said I understand, as in I can understand what he is saying and why this would be his position on the matter. I do not think there is going to be a civil war. If there is then I hope the people who cause it realize how shameful they are. Our country is a lot better off than most.

Ok that was a bit of a rant. To get back to what I want to talk about... I'm not sure people are really capable of looking at a situation objectively once they create their opinion. With this assault rifle ban you have those for an against it. Those for it are the families who lost loved ones due to a murderer. In their eyes their loved one would still be alive if that person hadn't been able to access a gun.
Those who are against it see it as the government trying to take away their right to bear arms.

Both of these are good reasons to stand up for your choice. But neither reason gives you a right to act like a child and stomp your feet. We need to be able to think about this entire situation objectively to come up with the best possible answer.

For the record, I do not think banning assault rifles will prevent murderers from killing people. Drugs are illegal and we still have addicts.

 I think the government has an obligation to make the victims families feel at ease by doing something to allow them to feel protected as well as know their government is supportive. Banning assault rifles seems to be the obvious choice but it's not a great one.

If you put on your objectivity helmet for a second you will see that you can make both sides happy by compromising. You do not have to ban assault rifles to make the families feel like you are doing something to prevent this from happening. You can increase security at schools.

I'm also not quite sure why registering all of your firearms is such a big deal. Once again I think my husband might be a little paranoid about "the man" when it comes to something like this. It doesn't seem like there can be any harm from the government knowing what weapons you own. But on the other hand since I don't see the benefit of it either it seems unnecessary.

So I guess this was just a nice long chat about increasing security at schools instead of banning assault rifles. But the real message is to consider others and be objective. Let's all be better human beings.