My take on gun control

I will try and explain my take on gun control.  I will agree there is no reason for anyone outside the military to have semi-automatic assault rifles.  That being said, I am not for outright banning them.  I do know hunters in Texas that use them in trying to thin out the wild hog population.  You have to hunt them at night and when you come upon a group of them, as soon as you fire into them, they scatter.  So with a conventional weapon, you might get one.  With an AR-15, it is possible to take down several.  But I am still not comfortable with the average citizen owning these guns.  Those who have owned guns all their lives are the ones you never know are armed.  They never talk about their guns.  They never display them.  They just quietly go about their business.  It is the braggarts that cause the trouble.  All that being said, I do believe we need more stringent vetting processes  and law enforcement must share data.  If the Air Force had entered Kelly's information into the FBI database, he could never have bought those guns he used in the church shootings in Texas.  It used to be that fools like this were afraid to do anything because they knew the locals would kill them.  Well with the advent of the internet and instant communication and sensationalizing mass shootings, they want their 15 minutes of fame.  They see themselves going out in a blaze of glory.  And all they are are small minded, mean, bullies.  Cowards.  Notice they never pick a place that they know will have people to meet them gun for gun.  They never attack a police station, a military base, no place that they may meet resistance.  That makes them cowards.  Am I for arming those in the congregations?  Yes.  Absolutely.  What stopped this killer?  A local with a gun.  Had that man not stopped him, there is a good possibility that he would have continued his killing spree and done a lot more damage.  In rural Texas, some areas are miles from law enforcement.  One school district armed many of it's administrators and teachers because the nearest law enforcement was 160 miles away.  So if you live in a densely populated area, you may have trouble understanding this.  So there is a reason for citizens to be armed.  And I for one will be.