This is my dad. Handsome, huh? He was a Connecticut State Trooper for 14 years and then served our town as police chief for 25 years. He taught me to hunt and fish; turning 16 meant I could take both driver’s ed and hunter safety. Some days he would come home and tell us funny stories about his shift. Other days, the stories were not funny, although he shielded his young daughters from the worst of what he saw.
I get a lot from my dad. My freckles. My ease at public speaking. In an effort to ‘meet the moment’ I know I should have some definitive statement about police and BLM, gun safety and 2A. But what I inherited from my dad’s experience is that while police have a dangerous difficult job and deserve our support, they are only human and some are not good humans. That, like any of us, they can do the wrong thing as a poor decision in the heat of a moment, or as part of a pattern of wrong behavior. That owning guns is a right, but that their lethality in a moment of despair or anger is a danger. So if you want to know if I support law enforcement or BLM, 2A or ERPO, you’d better be prepared for a conversation instead of a sound bite.
Let’s talk.
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