articulated all the way down to LEO cowardice. Thank you for this. This says it all. And it is just cowardice on the part of the 'protect and serve' bunch in this scenario. Ever since the Columbine school massacre in 1999, which that massacre being what was an American watershed, it has moved to the 4th mass killing of innocents. Since Columbine 146 innocents have died, with at least 182 wounded.
https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2022-04-22/guns-became-leading-killer-of-u-s-children-teens-in-2020-analysis-shows
Guns in the wrong hands cause tragedies like the Uvalde-Robb ELEMENTARY School massacre. Stricter rules for purchase are one response I can think of. And this has been said a multitude of times. 300 million+ guns are in private hands in this country with the over 400 million rounded out by military and police ownership.
I don't claim to know the solution to the massacres that have happened since Columbine. But something has to be done about the ability to purchase weapons of mass destruction without proper vetting. And I don't claim to know what that entails. Psychologists must come up with questions to ask that might reveal anger and/or mental illness? Waiting periods that gun shop owners have to adhere to? Hell!!! I don't know!!! There are smarter people than me out in American society that can come up with solutions to gun proliferation. And proliferation sometimes ends up in the wrong hands. The Uvalde killer had bought his weapons just 2 days before his spree of killings of innocent children and his grandmother for whatever reason(s).
I am just one voice out there and it's drowned out by the 2nd Amendment crowd. Okay, I mean nothing to them. Yet while this country has continuously idealized its blood-drenched history of colonisation out of the barrel of a gun, the "wild wild west" being just one era, we must find a way to stop these massacres of innocents by keeping guns out of the wrong hands. But what do I know? I am so sad about these continuing massacres of innocents. And believe me, I have been up close and personal with the lethality of handheld weapons.
I went to war with idealized notions of being part of the "do the right thing for your country crowd". Believing in the Kissinger "Domino Theory". 13 months later I knew it was all a lie. Emotionally, psychologically and still physically. So I can't imagine what the loved ones of these massacre victims are dealing with in seeing the outcome of this purposeful massacre of their children by a person who never should have been able to purchase this semi-automatic weapon of mass destruction. But we all know that. Sorry for this long-winded rant because of my inability to stop massacres like this. I am so very, very sad
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