Is this carrying gun issues to far?
By Elizabeth Oglesby | Tucson Sentinel
(Editor’s note: Opinion pieces are published for discussions purposes only.)
As hundreds of thousands participated in the March for Our Lives over the weekend to honor the Parkland victims and demand stricter gun control laws to end violence in schools and communities, here in Tucson we got news of the protests from our local television station and ABC affiliate: KGUN.
We can do better, Tucson. It’s time to rename KGUN.
In saying this, I am not maligning the role that the TV station plays in our local community, nor the work of its dedicated reporters and staff. And I’m not impinging on anyone’s legitimate Second Amendment rights.
But it’s time to stop celebrating guns as an emblem of social identity.
I laughed when I first tuned in to KGUN, right after I moved to Tucson in the fall of 2002. I’m in the “Wild West,” I thought. But it was almost charming in a folkloric way, as if metro Tucson could be likened to a modern-day O.K. corral.
