I wrote this letter today to Senator Brown:
Good morning Senator Brown,
I'm writing today because I received an email over the weekend about some new gun laws that are being voted on that would restrict the rights of Delaware citizens to own certain firearms. I'd like to express my disapproval for these proposed laws and assert my opinion that we as democrats should not be running on an anti gun platform but instead focus on reducing gun violence by fighting poverty and providing more educational and economic opportunities for families and youth in Wilmington.
Gun ownership has been going up since the pandemic and I feel that we would be alienating those democrats like me who are exercising their rights to protect their families.
As the father of a 7 year old I care deeply about the safety of our children and their security while they are at school. In fact, the day of the Uvalde shooting, before we had even heard about it, I messaged the principal to express my concerns about the security of students at xxxxxxxx. It's way too easy to access the school and get into the classrooms with a gun, not to mention children are exposed during recess and when waiting to be picked up at the end of the day. An assault weapons ban would not prevent someone from entering the school with a concealed weapon or opening fire with a handgun on kids playing outside. Instead of an unenforceable ban, I urge you to put metal detectors in schools and allocate more money toward resource officers for our schools. Our district only has six resource officers and they have to be shared between schools so on some days there is zero protection for our kids. I nearly pulled my son out on the spot when the school principal told me this.
Hopefully we can devote this summer toward making schools safer for the next year. I have more ideas I'd like to share about school safety but those are outside scope of this email. I'd be happy to discuss it with you further when you have the time.
