It is beautiful here today in NY. The humidity has dropped, the birds are singing and yet I feel (no, I know) that we are doomed. Doomed.
The massacre at the movie theatre in Aurora, Colorado has opened the old and worn out argument about gun control – those being for it and the opponents who want to die with their guns in their cold dead hands.
Both sides are at the ready and no one is listening to each other. How can they hear the rhetoric with all the bullets flying through the air?
We are doomed.
It seems right after the slaughter of 12 innocent people, both sides came out swinging. One talks about changing the law to protect the innocent and the other talks about protecting their freedom to bear arms in case they are attacked by Indians (some of our ancestors were nice enough to kill them and take their land). Old ways of thinking need to change.
I am for gun control. Always have been and always will be. But there are enough guns in this country that every person would own one – even little kids could strap one on the waist of their Garanimals.
Why don’t we just face it and be honest. This will never change. Other people’s kids will be murdered and most of you will go back to reading Fifty Shades of Grey and won’t give a shit. But, wait. Tell me what you will say and feel when someone who is pissed off or mentally imbalanced takes a gun and kills a loved one. Kills you child. The child that you dreamt about having since you were little girl. The child that you wanted to grow up and be president. How are you going to feel? That someone who has no right to be near a gun much less points it at your child and blows the life out of your child. It happens every day and yet people think it won’t happen to them or their loved ones.
Gun Control is never going to happen here. And we call ourselves civilized?
We are doomed.
A few people started to go after me because of my pro-gun control stance. It is annoying at best and I think a bit disrespectful for all the families who lost loved ones on Friday morning. This isn’t about your right to own guns.
It’s about all that lost potential. Was there a peace maker in that group? That is always my fear. Did they just kill the one person who could change our world?
People don’t want to change – just look at Congress. Change would require that people get out of their easy chair and put down their remote. And work together. Keep your damn guns but don’t let them get into the hands of people like James Holmes.
Speaking of Congress – could you put aside your differences and try to protect us?
We are doomed.
And I want to let everyone who refuses to work on making this a safer and more peaceful country know that the blood of the innocent will never wash off your hands.
But you don’t give a shit, do you?
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**we just face it and be honest. This will never change. Other people’s kids will be murdered and most of you will go back to reading Fifty Shades of Grey and won’t give a shit**
Excellent, my friend.
We are NOT DOOMED.
We need to all take a stand. NOW.
Did you know in 4 years — 400,000 people will be shot in America?
What are we going to do about it?
Once we take a stand and GIVE A SHIT, our country will be what is should be….
Until then, keep reading 50 Shades of FU%#ed Up.
What is wrong w/ our priorities.
I’m ready to change the world.
Lets GO!!!!!!
Xx
Yeah, really, what in the HE*L is wrong with people?! Gun control, PLEASE! Ban assault weapons.
We’ll always have guns, that’ll never change, and I’m 100% in favor of the right to bear arms. But absolutely, we need more control. This is a topic Carol Baker and Vicki Childs have tackled on BROADSIDED. It’s shocking how easy it is for people to get guns, legally. There needs to be a cooling off period and investigations into the permit applicant’s criminal record and mental stability.
We are doomed. There is no logic at all to support the sale of assault rifles, much less the ability to buy the ammunition for these killing machines over the Internet. More blood on the hands of the NRA.
Jayne – I can’t sleep at night because of what happened on Friday. But, I can sleep at night knowing that I don’t support the NRA.
Hiding behind the 2nd Amendment argument is just laziness. Not one person that I’ve ever heard that is in favor of gun control has ever said they want all guns banned, not one. I have guns in my home, for my husband to hunt, for meat, that we eat. But NO ONE NEEDS AN AUTOMATIC WEAPON. And as some would suggest, you aren’t going to take it along to the movie theatre for protection. So, there is absolutely no reasonable argument about allowing normal everyday citizens to have automatic weapons. The crux of the problem of course is the word “reasonable”. And seriously, we want everyone “packin’ heat” at the movies, the local restaurant, the library, schools? I have to stop listening anymore because the arguments are so absolutely stupid. As for the most recent shooting, I cry knowing I have a daughter at each age that was murdered, 27, 24 & 18. It’s just too close to home knowing it could happen anywhere, at anytime, to one of mine. The thought terrifies me to the core.
Change is an interesting word, and one that clearly terrifies many. Maybe if we called it “adjusting to reality”, would that help? 2nd Amendment argument-puleez! I’m over it. Let’s “adjust” the 2nd Amendment for current life, that’s reasonable. There’s that word again, reasonable.
Fawnda,
I agree 100% – Let’s “adjust” the 2nd Amendment for current life, that’s reasonable. Reasonale works for me could have avoided all this misery.
You make many good points, but one stands out: What happens when it’s YOU’RE child? Ask the parents of students who attended Columbine. Some were avid 2nd Amendment absolutists. Sure can’t find one there today…
Thanks for writing this, Elizabeth. I was feeling kind of lonely out here. I’m not alone. Every time you write, you remind me, I’m not alone. (((Hugs))).
*your* child. I should never write when I get so emotional.
Carol, Please know that you are not alone as long as I am breathing. My hope is that more people will begin to demand changes to our gun laws, sending you a big hug. elizabeth