This day started out like most ordinary winter days in Southern California, blue skies and a warming sun, a beautiful day….but unknown to me, violence was happening across a few short miles in the next county...not country, but county; in my backyard the shooting began, shots fired, one after another, until fourteen people lie dead, and seventeen lie bleeding, and thousands stand in shock... Is it just another day, another shooting? When does complacency change to action?
We wonder how many more people will die before these occurrences are taken seriously, and not become just another day in our lives. Our POTUS says he’s sorry and something needs to be done along the lines of gun control, but the truth of the matter is, we have no control over the people who hold the power to control guns.
The National Rifle association runs our government with money, and the firearms are held in their hands, just as if they are the shooters, themselves. I simplify, but that’s the bottom line. Where do you go when the obvious speaks louder than words, speaks with the ring of a bullet hitting a target, only the target is a human life? No other country has this accuracy; no other country has this ignorance, people who want to defend these representatives, thinking with blinders on that guns are the answer to all evil, when just the opposite is true; it is the love and worship of these weapons that blinds the eyes.
The argument begins--- It is the people who hold these guns that is the problem. A good argument, according to the NRA defenders. The crazies, the insane, the mentally deficient….and just who hands them this gun to do the deed? Laws are useless unless enforced. Laws are useless unless defended.
The sickness is in the skewed thinkers that guns solve the problem; guns on campuses, guns given to teachers and incompetent, irrational thinkers who are not trained to defend with a gun; teachers who should be using and teaching with words or rational thinking, not defending violence with violence. You can’t defend and justify “no hitting” when you hit someone.
In some states, the people in law enforcement aren’t always on the same page, where they ignore the gun laws, no background checks to expedite licensing with less paperwork. The laziness of the ignorant.
These killers, the representatives of the insane NRA, held assault weapons in their hands, an object to mass murder; an object that has only one meaning, one intention - to kill innocent people, to slaughter people as if they had no meaning, no reason to live another day here on this beautiful earth, on this beautiful day.
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