Gun control not the solution for school safety

To everyone who marched last week, I was a student at Frontier Middle School. The Barry Loukaitis shooting happened before I ever set foot in kindergarten, but the echoes of those gunshots were ringing as I attended class years later. That atrocity, like every other school shooting since, should not have happened.

The people who organized the March For Our Lives movement insist that the NRA is complicit in those atrocities. They say that over five million NRA members have blood on their hands for not supporting more regulation. They are wrong. We are not responsible for the actions of sick and evil people, and to say otherwise is slander.

Many of the people who marched want to make schools safer. That is a laudable goal. All of America wants our children to be safe. I remember some rough times when I attended the local high school. When I have children and they attend school, I can only hope that they never know the gang violence and catfights that I remember.

There are things we can do to make our schools safer, but the answer is not more gun control. If anyone disagrees with me, I hope we can talk about it. In fact, if anyone thinks that more government regulation on my firearms will make your children safer, I want to talk to you. Write in, and see if you can change my mind.

Ben Warren

Moses Lake