Editor,

Buy a dad or loved one a gun safe for Christmas.

I waited in the aftermath of the Marysville-Pilchuck High School shooting to write this letter so as to not jump on the emotional bandwagon.

Please buy a dad or loved one who needs a gun safe one for Christmas.

School students are a very emotional bunch who don’t need access to guns. I think the best things we as dads can do to contribute to lowering school gun violence is prevent easy access or unintended access to guns.

As a believer in our Second Amendment rights, I still see the need or responsibility to lock up our guns when not using them for sport or hunting.

I know there are other Second Amendment rights advocates who don’t believe a useful gun is one that is locked up.

But we live in a different world than the one I initially grew up in. Even as a Concealed Weapons Permit holder, we need to lock up our guns for the sake of our children and future grandchildren.

Please buy someone that needs one a gun safe for Christmas, and please use it.

Keith Mowbray

Oak Harbor