Doing the same thing over and over while expecting different results.
America is insane.
At least once a week I get a news notification on my phone about another mass shooting somewhere in America...yet nothing changes. There have been 74 school shootings JUST THIS YEAR, and if you're keeping track it's only June. That's 74 incidents in six months. We shake our heads, wipe the tears of our mourning (unless you're Joe Plumber) and keep everything else in place. After all, what is America about without the Second Amendment?
Well, we aren't about being first in Education. That's for sure. Because if we were we would know enough to read the Second Amendment within the context of the time of which is was written (much as the Bible has been neglected out of context but that is another post for another time). Redcoats, Revolution...anyone? No one is taking away your right to have a gun but everyone is wondering why nothing has changed in regard to how they are obtained and where the line of absolution is drawn in the wake of a tragedy.
Something HAS to give. There are double locks on the doors at my child's school. I have to be buzzed in to see her at lunch. No, there is nothing wrong with added safety but what happens when the threat is already inside the school with her? We live in Texas so I would venture to say that the vast majority of the children at her school are in homes where more than one gun is owned. Should I send her to school armed with one of these bullet resistant blankets and hope I'm able to pick her up alive?
This image is heartbreaking. This idea that we must teach our kids to protect themselves from an active shooter so that Joe Plumber can avoid change. It's pure torture that a parent must consider these alternatives in today's world ALL because people are so worried about their entitlement being removed. I'm so sorry to inform you that my child is also entitled. She's entitled to a childhood. A childhood where her only fear should be of the shadows in her closet and NOT the ticker on the news. I should not have to answer questions about kids her age dying because someone took their mother's guns and showed up on campus that day. I should not have to leave Target because some nut job thinks it's his right to show up with an assault rifle and expect me and my kids to get over it. Who's to say HE isn't the next Elliot Roger?
Changes can and have been made in other countries after these events happen and the statistical changes in those countries should be enough to instigate a thorough investigation into what we can do to prevent any further loss of life.
Australia
The U.K.
Canada & Japan
Contrary to popular political beliefs (especially in the South), Obama has a terrible record on gun control. As a matter of fact, our political biases and our inability as a nation to come together on anything has most likely made the situation worse. But, no, we're too busy concerning ourselves with what goes on in the bedrooms of homosexuals than we are protecting our children from clear and present danger. You can't change others but you can certainly change legislation to prevent kids from dying. I'd say that something worth looking into.
What do we do? If you're a parent, what would you do? I certainly don't want to homeschool my child. I don't want to feed the fear monster that lives at the bottom of my television screen. Yes, bad guys are going to get guns no matter how strictly regulated but shouldn't we do what we can to slow the tidal wave?
Keep your guns. By all means, that is one of the foundations of our freedoms. But let's consider some alternatives to helping keep others safe from those who intend harm. Is that too much to ask I'm sure the parents of Allison Wyatt wouldn't think so.
And the family of Rachel D'Avino wouldn't complain.
Place your child's image in this thread. Or your spouse. Consider how you would feel if they were gone because a registered gun owner went nuts one day. Would you tell me that you would say, "Well, they obtained it legally so I guess it's okay by me."
I highly doubt that would be your answer.
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