To my Christian friends:

[Tigress DEM]

8. Maybe 24 hours out of respect for the dead is a thought... but I do think rational gun control...

conversations shouldn't be all that controversial. It's common sense and should eventually become accepted as such.

What I think needs to happen is to have a calm and rational discussion and just keep it up until we get the laws we need. Become the broken record.

Like Mother Theresa with her ceaseless intent to bring mercy to the poor.

Like a river that just keeps flowing.

Like the tide - day in and day out - with the holy intent of ending this kind of senseless slaughter without going out and ripping people apart with our bare hands out of frustration.

Occupy the NRA and shame them into making these changes so that only sensible, responsible gun owner behavior is promoted. Many people who grew up with the NRA and the Second Amendment are the same people that would pick up a gun to go defend your life in the armed services or on a police force.

Michael Moore and Ed Schultz are Liberals and responsible gun owners. A lot of blue collar people are liberal and believe in the 2nd Amendment but would NEVER condone killing children and would HELP find ways to keep things like this from happening in the future if we could have the sane, rational conversations that are needed.

But during our grief when the wound is so raw, do any of us really have the strength to have that conversation with people whose presence reminds us that gun ownership has become more sacred than the lives of children?

I think that's why people are taking a breather. To mourn, to heal, to regroup and start the conversation AGAIN because it's one that will never be done until tragedies like this are nothing but a memory decades from now.