TEARS, SHOCK AND YES, EVEN ANGER!

Today is not what I want this BLOG to be about. Yet, if I am going to record what is going on in my life and is important in the moment I can not ignore it. We have experienced another mass shooting. It was not a foreign terrorist event. Once again it appears to have been committed by an American citizen. Once again the means used to murder 12 people was a gun.

There have been tears and shock, but mostly what I have experienced is ANGER! What have we become as a country?  When will people wake up, see, and acknowledge that there is a lot of anger and hostility here. There is a lot of mental instability. There is a lot of supposed need for retribution. And there is a lot of fear of the "other"--those unlike ourselves. When will we as a country acknowledge that the ready availability of guns and ammunition made possible by our gun laws make it all too easy to plan and commit a mass shooting. Where are the leaders of our country? What are they doing to protect us?

Look at the statistics around the world. Where there are strong gun laws there are fewer shootings! I do not want to hear our leaders in Congress or the White House once again say their thoughts and prayers are with the victims and their families. Do something to reduce the possibility of this happening again. Then you can offer thoughts and prayers.

I live in a state where it is legal to obtain a permit to carry a gun.  I know many people who do carry one on a regular basis. I also know that many people I don't know are out there with a gun somewhere on their body. THIS DOES NOT MAKE ME FEEL SAFER! If anything it makes me feel less safe. What if I am at a movie theater or a restaurant and some one at a table next to me ticks off someone at a table on the other side of me and one of them decides they feel so threatened that they need to pull out their gun to "protect" themselves. Then the offending person feeling threatened pulls out there gun and guess who is caught in the middle. ME! This is not the wild west folks. We are supposed to be living in a civilized country. When I look at some of the things going on right now here in America I have to wonder.

Enough of this. Tomorrow I will get back to my reading, cleaning, sewing and crafting.  Maybe that there is the problem with our country. Things such as mass shootings take place and for a moment we cry, are shocked and even angry. Then the next day we go back about our life as if nothing happened.
Except, I think subconsciously we are waiting for the next tragic and traumatic event to occur.