The trauma of seeing our children fleeing their schools from a shooter and the carnage left in their wake to students and teachers in unbearable to watch. Equally appalling is to know that the number one choice of “death by suicide” is a gun.

The arguments for and against gun control range from doing nothing because the Constitution’s Second Amendment rights guarantee the “right to bear arms” to “let’s outlaw all guns.” The extremism of either side provides no answer to the problem.

There are many, many things we can and should do. Number one is change the law that currently grants the Department of Environmental Management the power to approve all requests for guns. That should be a function of the Attorney General’s Office, and if elected, I will introduce legislation to do just that and many more specific recommendations to legally protect our children’s safety.

Doug Gablinske

Mr. Gablinske is an Independent candidate for House District 69.