Women and Gender Studies Prof Urges Obama to Ban Guns
In an op-ed for the Democrat and Chronicle, Barbara LeSavoy, a women and gender studies professor at the College at Brockport urges Obama to ban guns.
Obama’s legacy on guns should be to ban them
I urge President Obama to ban firearm possession in America. He is the president of the United States. He can change the country. He can do it today. I believe in him.
I voted for Barack Obama. Twice. During his 2008 presidential campaign, my two daughters, partner, and I ate every meal in our house on Obama placemats. We bought these at our local supermarket, plastic-coated, plate-sized paper rectangles with an image of his face framed by colors of the flag. While politically minded, I am not overly patriotic, so this mealtime ritual of American allegiance was odd for me. Still, we looked at the image of his face each day and we believed that he really could be the change in America.
As Obama’s 2012 campaign approached, I was a little jaded. Some of his promises to our country did not come true, and I was anxious about rising social tensions he and his administration faced. Racial inequality plagued the news, gender-based violence grew in global proportion, and women’s reproductive freedoms had become increasingly vulnerable.
Still, I did not waver. I dug into our old dining room cupboards, and found our worn but resilient Obama placements. I dusted them off, and once again, my family and I ate all of our meals looking at his image. In his presidency, we still imagined a country on the edge of change.
Today, I write this letter with a bleeding heart. I admire Obama. But he has let me down. I am disappointed because his presidency could have done more for our country, and sadly, the many taken lives who cannot read this essay. I still worry about urgent social tensions facing our nation, and I recognize their ongoing complexities in policy and legislative action. But gun violence can be averted. Can our country ever be free from senseless gun-crime?
Firearm possession should be banned in America; President Obama can orchestrate this directive.
Comments
All I can say is that it takes all kinds — even people who do not know about the separation of powers.
I thought the Constitution could only be changed by a Constitutional Convention or by a Royal Edict.
I thank God every day that He punishes the Leftist atheists who disavow him by making them all stupid enough to assume that they’re smarter than everyone else, especially conservatives and libertarians.
Good one, God!
It is the subtlety in His action protecting the Faithful which makes me humble before Him and profoundly awed at His Magnificence.