Awareness & Support

“What are we doing?”: Gun Violence

https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2022/05/24/chris-murphy-texas-elementary-school-shooting-vpx.cnn

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) reacts on the Senate floor after the deadly mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. Source: CNN

What are we doing, indeed. I listened to a news story discuss the Texas school shooting on my drive home from work today. The NPR host prefaced the story by mentioning to the reporting journalist that they had just spoken not too many days ago for the Buffalo grocery store mass shooting.

What are we doing.

Ponderings

Author: Donating Blood & Young Hope (Gun Violence) 💉🌱

We drove downtown today so I could donate blood. It was my fifteenth donation. There’s always a big need for blood, but especially now with the current pandemic. Please consider donating. My little blog entry continues below.

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Ponderings

Author: Mass Shootings | Sober Thoughts🕯️

There have been two mass shootings in America within the last 48 hours. I’ve been seeing articles about how many mass shootings there have been so far this year and how it’s outpacing the number of days in a year.

I feel like we’re living in a surreal version of 1984 in my country, albeit American flavored. When our Founding Fathers included the Right to Bear Arms into the Constitution, it was in reaction to British rule and relationships. The guns back then took minutes to load, aim and shoot ONE round. One.

I get this Political Cartoon image in my head of politicians being bunkered in at the Capitol in an Armageddon type of setting.  They’re the only ones left and the last survivors of the human race  are outside killing each other. The President will turn to his staff and go “Well, we protected their right to bear arms!” And another will say “But there’s no one left to vote for you now.”