……I’d just woken up…..washed…..poured a cup of coffee……and notice my brother Dexter had posted a video……and he was talking about a school shooting…..so I thought he was commenting on the anniversary of one…..until I read the article posted right under his video…..and I was shocked…..another one…….Columbine High school…….Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School……Santa Fe High School……Sandy Hook Elementary School……and now Robb Elementary School…..I have no words for this…..and “my heart and prayers” isn’t making it anymore…..another 18-year-old…..dressed in body armor…..randomly shooting people……with two semi-automatics…..he purchased on his last birthday……as a present to himself……me, being a parent……I can’t imagine this happening…..well, I mean I can but…..it’s a shame such a tragedy has to happen for people to realize…..we need better gun control laws….and yet……when something like this does happen…..many still refuse to change the laws…..until it his home……and then it’s too late!….I’m tired…..I’m tired of reading and hearing about stories like this……and I could not have said this any better…..
WHEN IN GOD’S NAME…..are we going to stand up to the gun lobby? – (President Joseph R. Biden Jr.)
MY FRIENDS ARE…..Parents, not parents, kind, generous and giving……and sometimes a royal pain in the ass…..but their hearts are good……their souls glow…..and this shooting was truly felt by many of them…..and here’s what a few had to say about it……
BABIES!!!!!…….THEY WERE BABIES!!!!!
THERE IS SOMETHING….deeply hypocritical about praying for a problem…..you are unwilling to resolve
AT THIS POINT IN AMERICA……it’s no longer a question of “IF” you’ll be impacted by a mass shooting…..it’s just a question of exactly “when”…..and “how”……you’ll be impacted by a mass shooting
JUST IN CASE YOU DIDN’T KNOW…..today is the 144th day of 2022……the Uvalde shooting is the 212th shooting of 2022……gun violence is a public health crisis
IT’S INSANE…..how the only notable change since Sandy Hook…..is that kids are now formally trained to…..hide, barricade doors, fight, or run for their lives…..that was the solution…..to literally put the responsibility on them…..to figure it out and wish them luck
SCHOOLS……should be sanctuaries of safety for our children…..not where they go to die
NO CHILD……should be scared they will die at school……no parent…..should be worried to send their child to school……and no teacher should have to wonder…..if they will make it home safely…..at the end of the day……the grief is crushing
DEAR CHILDREN OF THE WORLD…….it’s not supposed to be like this
IT TAKES A MONSTER…..to kill children…..but to watch monsters kill children…..again and again and do nothing……isn’t just insanity…..it’s inhumanity
TEXAS…..where the Governor was more concerned…..about keep mask out of the schools…..than guns
SORRY, BUT THIS TRAGEDY ISN’T “UNIMAGINABLE”…..we saw ten people killed at a grocery store last week…..we saw an elementary school shot up with 20 kids dead…..less than ten years ago…..it’s very much “imaginable” now
AND THEN THERE WAS THIS……after a mass shooting left 51 dead in 2019…..New Zealand sprang into action…..by quickly banning most semi-automatic weapons…..and launched a buyback scheme……Jacinda Ardern…..the country’s prime minister said the response was “pragmatic”….. “When we saw something like that happen, everyone said ‘Never again’”