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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThese days are becoming painful to anticipate and to live.
I don't want to write a lengthy essay on the history and legalities of the Second Amendment and all of the knots our nation has twisted itself into by trying to divine the thoughts and intentions of its writers. I just want to make a comment as a mother and grandmother in response to the consequences of being so focused on the idea of "wood" that we can no longer see either tree or forest.
Every day we find ourselves confronted with needless deaths--someone's child, someone's grandchild, someone's husband, wife, lover, someone's brother sister....someone. Deaths that are not just single slayings but wholesale massacres. Bloodbaths. Sacrifices on the altar of an industry run amuk. And we see those who rush to defend the ever escalating mayhem with no thought to the idea that arsenals create neither peace or freedom from fear or happiness.
The days are becoming painful--for those who personally experience the loss of life and health and for the communities which experience the shattering of peace and trust in each other. Days that are painful for the majority of people who understand the immorality of free marketing death.
We say "Not one more" and we must mean it because too much ground has been ceded to bullies and criminals. No society tolerant of an endless bloodletting can claim to be a civilized one. This day has been painful, and the week is young. Will tomorrow be painful too?
FSogol
(46,071 posts)randys1
(16,286 posts)react to daily mass shootings by saying it is OK, nothing out of the norm and for gods sake you cannot be fearful
JustAnotherGen
(33,049 posts)Exposethefrauds
(531 posts)In 'Mercia
The death toll will keep rising too until enough of the 1% has been impacted by gun violance that something will be done about it
Shooting each other is good for guns, ammo and funeral sales so there is no economic reason to stop it
Skittles
(157,099 posts)sick, sick, SICK of gun humpers
hatrack
(60,351 posts)Couldn't agree more with the