86-year-old Grandma Gun Shop Owner: Control is For Animal, Not Human (Does She Have A Fair Point?) (933 hits)
86-year-old Carolyn Kellim spoke with NBC News following the Umpqua Community College shooting in Roseburg, Oregon. Kellim owns a gun shop nearby.
She explained the process of buying a gun but shared some other interesting observations on:
Adding additional checks or restrictions on gun ownership:
“I think that’s the worst thing in the world they could do. They’ve got so many laws now that they are not even looking at, and more constraints on guns is not the answer.”
President Obama’s ideas about gun control:
“He has strange ideas. I don’t think he’s ever carried a gun. I’m not sure he’s ever shot one … but he seems to think that they’re bad all the way through. They’re not.”
The Umpqua Community College shooter, 26-year-old Christopher Harper-Mercer:
“How can you hate him? You don’t know him. He was just a child…He probably had his ups and downs, mostly downs. How are you going to come out of that if someone doesn’t care.”
What can be done to help prevent mass shootings:
“The thing that we need to do…we need to love people a heck of a lot more and make sure that all of our people in this community are accepted and that they have friends and that they have somebody maybe to just sit down and talk to.”
“I think you’ll find that you’ll get a lot better response from just loving people than you will from trying to find fault with them and trying to keep them controlled. Control is for animals. It’s not for humans.”
The Blaze notes that she is not just all talk. Kellim donates profits from her gun shop, KC’s Exchange, to a local charity that helps homeless teens.
NBC News wrote that during their three day stay in the area, she was “one of the only residents” to “express empathy” for Harper-Mercer.
