I wasn't aware that so many of those mass murders - some of which I had heard of despite living on the other side of the Atlantic at the time - were in your state or even city. It is truly sickening that so many people who are actually in a position to effect change prefer to deny that restricting the availability of these weapons of mass murder would make things better - or are too cowardly to stand up to the special interest groups involved.
Or, even worse, insist that the solution to mass murder by guns is to arm even more people.
I don't know what would have to happen to bring about change - if Sandy Hook didn't do it, what the hell would? And after the Charleston shootings, it was easier to coalesce around the removal of a flag than around legislating to restrict gun ownership. But something has to, before it gets genuinely more dangerous to walk on the streets of a major American city than in Aleppo or Damascus.
Yes! And this resignation is unfathomable. "Oh, well, guns." To see local media converging on our suburb *again* to ask the same questions *again* is truly mind-boggling.
That and the fact that all of this hits so very, very close to home.
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Or, even worse, insist that the solution to mass murder by guns is to arm even more people.
I don't know what would have to happen to bring about change - if Sandy Hook didn't do it, what the hell would? And after the Charleston shootings, it was easier to coalesce around the removal of a flag than around legislating to restrict gun ownership. But something has to, before it gets genuinely more dangerous to walk on the streets of a major American city than in Aleppo or Damascus.
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That and the fact that all of this hits so very, very close to home.
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