We, the People, Are Responsible for Ending Gun Violence
In Schools, Churches, Grocery Stores, and Neighborhood Drive-by Shootings
I’ve not written a great deal lately. The muse, which has spoken to me occasionally, hasn’t whispered in my ears or shaken my dungeon and set the spirit free to express what has been bottled up inside me for months, albeit years.
Columbine shocked the nation to its core. The unthinkable had happened to children in such a massive way in their secure space. Aurora left us numbed, Trayvon Martin stunned us, and Mother Emanuel momentarily sucked the hope out of our collective beings.
The cry for help is always the same: “We need sensible local, state, and federal gun control legislation.”
The answer to this posit is nonsensical: “The Second Amendment gives me the right to gun ownership. What we need to do is legislate mental help.” You can insert the name of any conservative here.
Nothing gets done. Each deadly encounter we end up with no sensible regulation of weapons of war in the hands of private American citizens nor an influx of federal or state dollars into mental health. And the rapid automatic clip of an…
