To My Dyker Heights Neighbor with the Unsecured Gun
Dear Neighbor,
I don’t necessarily write this letter to you because I know your type and I know that you don’t listen to anyone. It’s common sense to lock up your gun so your son doesn’t shoot his sister. It’s even the law, but the law isn’t for you – it’s just for the other peons in the world.
You live less than a mile from me on 71st Street near 12th Avenue. And when your son took your gun and shot your daughter with it, I bet you were glad it was your daughter and not someone else’s kid who would sue your for your stupidity. Your poor daughter suffered because your gun wasn’t properly locked up.
Before you think I am anti-gun, I’M NOT. I support my right and my neighbors right to have a gun, but that’s because we are responsible adults.
The point of my post today isn’t to insult you openly. My point was to discuss what the consequences of your failure to follow the law should be. Adults who allow children access to weapons should be arrested and serve jail time – Yes neighbor, it’s that simple. If your daughter wasn’t the child that was shot and someone else’s child was shot and killed, someone would be serving jail time. That someone would have been your child. But this isn’t your child’s fault – it’s yours and you should have been arrested for improperly handling a gun in your home.
I do hope someone who can change laws in our state will hold you accountable before another child gets hurt or killed.
Hugs,
marlene
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