Before we can grieve the souls lost in one mass shooting, it happens again.
Buffalo, New York, May 14, 2022, 10 Black elders gunned down in a supermarket by an 18-year-old white supremacist with an AK-15.
Uvalde, Texas, May 24, 2022, 19 fourth graders and their two teachers gunned down in their classrooms by a troubled 18-year-old with an AK-15.
And on.
And on.
It seems to me that when 19 police officers are too afraid to go in and neutralize a teenager with an AK-15 assault rifle and instead the cops stand around in the hallway for an hour, listening to gunfire as the shooter slaughters 19 children and two teachers on the other side of an unlocked door, then it's time to ban that weapon of war. Those cops put fear for their own lives above those Uvalde schoolchildren. Despite their oath to protect and serve, to be brave in the face of mortal danger, they let the babies die, many of them bleeding out as they dialed 911 again and again from their cell phones, begging the so-called good guys with guns to break through the door and help them. I cannot plumb the depths of their parents' grief. I can barely feel my own grief, I'm so blinded by rage. Anger is sorrow turned inside out.
Oh, this terrible country.
ReplyDeleteMaybe it's the nature of a country founded in violent revolution and even more violent expansion. I don't know how we became so crazy.
ReplyDeleteWe are such a broken mess here in America. A bloody mess.
ReplyDeleteGod, Guns, and Guts. All the better to control you with, kill you with, make you think you're free.
ReplyDeleteOuch. One person in Canada, here, is hoping you are not contagious.
ReplyDeleteAnd the really fucking worst of it is that be far the majority of Americans want these assault style rifles outlawed but the minority party is doing what they do best...obstruct any forward progress. Today they blocked a vote in the Senate on the Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act. They want these shootings to continue.
ReplyDeleteIt is truly a time of war. One grief after another. No respite.
ReplyDeleteWhen the minority controls the majority it isn't a democracy.
ReplyDeleteWe've been lost for a long time...
ReplyDeleteToo much grieving in our country.
ReplyDeleteGun violence yet again. Horrific and unconscionable on many levels. Canada is taking action to prevent gun violence. America?
ReplyDeleteI guess I missed this post. This country has a deep sickness in it's soul and our politicians care more for gun blood money than the lives of children. The people we pay and train to deal with this are too afraid for their own lives and yet people think that giving teachers gun would solve it. Apparently the Supreme Court decided that the police are not obligated to put themselves in mortal danger to save others. And so 19 children died and 17 were wounded.
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