Those with Guns Should be Taught Sanctity of Life

Protecting your country, and fighting crime and protecting your property are good things. Using a gun to do so can be also be good. I do not favor gun regulation, and back the Second Amendment. I simply wish we, as a people and without legislation, would realize the dangers of guns, and the dangers of some of our attitudes toward guns. If, as I am told, such things as shoot-to-kill is taught in our concealed weapons classes, then should it be? And, if it is, every warning and rejoinder as to the dangers of shoot-to-kill, and the times it is ill-advised, and the value of life of even a criminal, should also be taught.

For the values a society teaches its people will be reflected in the deaths from guns.

All this, as I think more on the young man who was blown away by a homeowner who apparently felt he was only protecting his home. The man who did the shooting was a church-going man, he didn't have a criminal background, and, yet, now he may end up charged with manslaughter or homicide. He had no criminal background, but there is another background which also might have contributed. That background is what he had been taught about guns, and whether they should be used to protect property. We do not know what he was taught, but we can wonder. And, we can wonder if he ever was taught to to value even the life of a robber, and to be careful not to shoot someone if unnecessary. The gun can be an instrument of death, so those who are to use them should be taught the sanctity of life, or there will be none.

 http://nbclatino.com/2013/01/29/georgia-man-shoots-and-kills-young-latino-who-accidentally-pulled-into-his-driveway-police-say/