With the staggering number of guns owned by private citizens in this country (estimated at 300 million) used to kill tens of thousands of Americans yearly, I would propose the following. Ask all patriotic gun owners in Western North Carolina to send their excess firearms to the brave Ukrainian resistance fighters. That way, these guns could kill more war criminals and less fellow Americans. Sounds like a win-win to me.
— Charlie Flynn
Asheville
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Ukrainian will testify that gun and ammo control for citizens was a bad thing. They can also give and account that if they had guns and ammunition it would have been hard to have an arbitrary limit on how much is enough.
Criminals don’t need but always have guns because, well their criminals!
Interesting how many crime’s are committed in zones of no hand guns allowed. It doesn’t usually work out good to rob a gun store.
It would have been nice to ship the military equipment left in Afghan to Ukraine instead of arming thugs but that commentary for our president speaks for it’s self.