***Looks like I gave up Facebook and Instagram (for Lent) just in time. Not at all missing the barrage of news/fake news/political tit for tat/NRA disputes, etc., that rears its ugly head with every school shooting, every random shooting, and/or every other atrocity that we humans inflict upon our fellow humans. There are prayer chains and marches, tears and anger and blame going round and round and then Facebook rolls out its (insert tragedy here) profile frame.
And for what??? Changes? What changes?!
Kindergartners in Sandy Hook were mercilessly gunned down. KINDERGARTNERS! Little ones just barely out of diapers!
Nothing changed for them.
Why should we expect things to ever change?
***I have no solutions but I do have suggestions.
1. – THOROUGH background checks!
2. – If you have a DOCUMENTED MENTAL ILLNESS, no gun for you!
3. – Parents. If your child under the age of 18 takes a gun to school, most probably yours, and MURDERS his classmates and teachers. YOU BOTH GO TO PRISON. Your child had access to your weapon. That’s on you. Or any other adult in the home who owns the weapon and did not secure it properly.
4. – Same gun laws across the board from state to state so we’re all on the same page and not going across state lines to purchase otherwise illegal guns.
5. – PUT THOSE ASSAULT RIFLES AND THAT BUMP STOCK AND ANY OTHER SEMI-AUTOMATIC WEAPONS where they belong. With our military and our police officers. Period.
I’ll leave you with this and jump down off of my soapbox.
“The assault rifle is a class of weapon that emerged in the middle of the last century to meet the needs of combat soldiers on the modern battlefield, where the level of violence had reached such heights that an entirely new way of fighting had emerged, one for which the existing weapons were a poor match.”
“The name “assault rifle” is believed to have been coined by Adolf Hitler.”
“Hitler hailed his army’s new wonder weapon by insisting that it be called not by the technical name given it by its developers, the Machinenpistole (the German name for a submachine gun), but rather something that made for better propaganda copy. A Sturmgewehr, he called the new gun: a “storm” or “assault” weapon.”
(A Brief History of the Assault Rifle – The Atlantic)
MIMI’S QUOTE FOR TODAY –
Magical Mystical Mimi 
It’s a shame this keeps happening, but no gun laws are going to spot this. We need to do something to protect our children. Gun free zones are invitations.
A drunk driver kills some while driving drunk and we blame the driver.
A bomber kills a bunch of people with a bomb and we blame the bomber.
If someone is killed by a handgun we blame the gun.
Have a fabulous day and weekend, my friend. ♥
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You’re absolutely right, Sandee. I just wish it wasn’t so easy to get those assault rifles. I’m not against guns. I grew up in a military/hunting family. I guess I’m opposed to those million bullet magazines and that bump stock they keep talking about. I really don’t know.. I just think someone walking into a building with a handgun would be easier to subdue and fewer bullets mean fewer lives lost. – I WISH they would do more at the schools to protect these kids. We have air marshalls and some schools have A officer. I think we need more. Also, metal detectors in schools. In the meantime, someone needs to invent bulletproof backpacks and lesson plan books. 😦
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Agree 100% with you on all points!
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I wish the powers that be would get it together and come up with something. Sandee ^ has a valid point. We blame the guns more than we blame the people behind them and the truth is, it is the people but there has got to be a way to keep those rapid-fire, multi bullets weapons out of the hands of everyday people. They belong with the military and our police depts.
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Agree with all your suggestions. It’s just so sad what keeps happening.
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It’s very sad. I mean seriously, how did this kid slip thru the cracks? Maybe it’s the higher level we need to address, altho to Pres Trump’s credit. Addressing the mental health issue is a definite must.
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Amen, Amen, Amen
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And Amen again… ❤ I hope we see a solution to this in my lifetime.
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