Riveting meeting at Newtown tonight. There are many full accounts but
this NYT one is pretty good. Still waiting for answer to parents' question: who needs an assault rifle in their home.
David Wheeler, who lost his son, Benjamin, on Dec. 14, told a state
legislative panel studying gun violence, mental health and school safety
that his first-grade son died because an unstable suicidal individual
“had access to a weapon that has no place in a home.”
At the end of his three-minute remarks, he told a panel that Thomas
Jefferson said government was instituted to protect our unalienable
rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. He said that those
words and their order were no accident.
“The liberty of any person to own a military-style assault weapon and a
high-capacity magazine and keep them in their home is second to the
right of my son to his life,” he said. “His life, to the right to live
of all of those children and those teachers, the rights of your
children, of you, of all of us. Let’s honor the founding documents and
get our priorities straight.”
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