GRAND Magazine - May/June 2018 - 26
grand legacy
Help young people save lives
BY JERRY WITKOVSKY
T
wo articles I read catapulted me to action.
The first, in the Washington Post, identified seven gun laws
that would have a powerful impact on reducing gun violence: red flag laws, relinquishment laws, assault weapons bans,
high-capacity magazine bans, gun possession prohibitions for
high-risk individuals, gun possession prohibitions for individuals
with domestic violence convictions and mandatory background
checks. In the article (access it here) journalists Leslie Shapiro,
Sahil Chinoy and Aaron Williams, created a grid showing which
states have these laws and which do not.
My vision for change is simple.
My vision is to have grandparents and grandchildren work
together in their own state to get these seven specific laws in
place. Simultaneously we will work to have these laws enacted on
a federal level.
The second article is one that resonates with me personally
as a veteran of World War II. Yes, you read that right - World
War II. I was in the occupational services in 1946, stationed in
Japan. The article was an OpEd piece from US Military Veterans.
#VetsforGunReform. Their sentiment is how I feel, "We're combat
veterans. We support the students demanding gun reform."
As veterans, we have first-hand fear and knowledge of what it
feels like to be shot at. Many of us fought in wars: World War II,
Vietnam, the Korean War, the Gulf War. We were trained to love
our guns. We were trained that our gun was our best friend and
protector. We were trained to kill. We also saw the pain and death
caused by guns.
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Students participate in a protest against gun violence outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)
During WWII, in homes where a husband or son was killed in
the war, there was a gold star on a pennant in their window. That's
how you knew. Violence affected our communities and we were
scared. Just as we are scared now.
We need to change gun laws.
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