Opinion | Please stop asking me to address gun violence, I’m busy banning books – By Rex Huppke (USA Today) / Mar 29 2023
How could you suggest we consider something as useless as banning assault rifles when children across the country could, at any moment, be exposed to a book called ‘And Tango Makes Three’?
Hello, I’m a Republican lawmaker, and while I’m heartbroken over Monday’s horrific elementary school shooting in Nashville, I’d appreciate it if people would stop asking me to do something to prevent such tragedies from happening again.
I’m a busy person, and there are many important issues I and my colleagues are addressing in our quest to make the world a safe place for children. For example, books. They are often bad. Lawmakers like myself at the local, state and federal level are doing everything we can to make sure dangerous books don’t wind up in the hands of children.
Ban guns? We’re busy banning books, thank you very much
How could you even suggest we consider something as useless as banning assault rifles like the one used this week to murder three children and three adults at The Covenant School when children across the country could, at any moment, be exposed to a book called “And Tango Makes Three”? That book involves gay penguins raising a chick, and it might inspire a child who has not been killed in a school shooting to think it’s OK for two people who love each other to form a family.
