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Ex-Shelby Star photographer, wrote a weekly outdoor adventure column. Now I'm a law student at UNC-Chapel Hill....

Monday, June 13, 2016

Thoughts, prayers, AND donating blood, thoughtful votes on these issues, giving money to causes that help (hit up the Google and pick your group... how about a moderate gun politics one? Those are out there)... And c'mon -- I've got friends in all sorts of situations who have all sorts of stances concerning firearms... some of them live in some really rough areas and carry CCW, and given their circumstances, after you've been broken into for the 11th time, you might be developing some opinions. For me, I was a journalist who covered crime in some violent places. That's the short version of the story. Please don't ask for the long version.... But if we can't come up with reasonable regulations to try to keep a self-loading high-capacity 5.56 longarm out of the hands of an ISIS terrorist in a nightclub while respecting the rights of everyone else (I met the guy who won Heller, I've looked over the decision, and SCOTUS apparently says reasonable regulation is kosher).... I'm a gun owner, but I'm not concerned about anyone taking my guns away and I am concerned about some crazy taking my life, the life of a loved one, or the life of any other pers...are we really still having to talk about this?, we're apparently incapable of agreeing on the color of an orange and Heaven help us all....