By Elliott Doomes, January 30, 2020 — In Philly, we have 6,000 policemen and 20,000 legal gun owners. Illegal gun owners can’t be counted. And we wonder with gun violence is the highest-rated crime of the city. For the first 12 days of January 2020, we had 13 violent deaths by gun. I wonder where it will end? It seems as though any angry individual in the city can acquire a gun.
In any predominately poverty-stricken poor neighborhood, these weapons of death can be purchased. The law we have pertaining to guns and gun violence are not adequate. Just recently within the last day or so a four-month-old infant was slain by a gun. There is an outcry from the citizenry, but it seems nothing can be done. When you talk about reducing the availability of guns, they claim their second amendment rights in the Constitution, the right to bear arms. We don’t need a well-maintained militia because we have a standing Army.
Nowadays it’s harder to get a pill that contains opioids for pain than it is to get a gun. The one and only time that I ever fired a gun, it was handed to me by a friend. Well, what he wanted to do was to show me how pretty his gun was, how shiny and all that, and I was sitting on the side of the bed not knowing that the gun was loaded, I pulled the trigger. And when the bullet exploded from the gun I was paralyzed for a moment. I couldn’t believe the sound that came from that gun.
I didn’t know where the bullet went. The window was open so I ran to the window to see if anyone was screaming and I listened to see if I could hear any sirens. I was overcome with fear that maybe I hit somebody with that bullet. I never knew where that bullet went, until the TV went on the blink. The TV man came to repair the TV and he found a bullet inside the television. I was so happy and relieved that the bullet was found, and it was only the TV that was wounded. That’s my story. I have not touched a gun since.
