Thursday, January 12, 2023

Thursday Ramble: This one hit me


 I had something else written, that you will see on another day, something hit me and I need to ramble for a minute. 

As I have written before, the United States has a gun problem.  For the second time I have met the parent of a child at a school that experienced a school shooting.  

I wrote a few years ago, about the son of a friend of mine, someone I had served on a board with, whose son hid under a desk while his classmates were murdered at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida. 

I am working on details on a new consulting contract at work. The person who works on the contracts, has a daughter who is a student at the elementary school where the six year old brought a loaded gun to school and shot his teacher. 

The impact on the students, the impact on the families of this senseless gun violence, is unimaginable. All of them will be changed in some way.  

No one should have first hand connection to two of these tragedies in one lifetime.  Lock the guns up, melt them down, keep them out of the hands of children. Repeating the same thing and expecting a different outcome is a plan for tragedy.  

14 comments:

  1. Both parties best get off their assess and do more for and on gun control. ASAP!

    And the latest school shooting? I have no heart. I say lock up the parents and the 6 year old brat. No exceptions. You pull a trigger and wound or kill...you pay the consequences, and get treated like a murdering adult.

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  2. It's unimaginable. Appalling that the USA is still living like this. I was going to say still having this conversation, but there is no conversation. Just ignorance and a refusal to see the difference stiffer gun control has made in other countries.

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    1. It is amazing the power of the dollar by the NRA and other lobbyist to the politicians to look the other way...greed. No one under the dome cares if you ask me Mitchell. When they want to get something done...like funding a war, funny how quickly they can all agree.

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    2. Canada outlawed the transfer of handgun this past year. It can be done. Australia strictly regulated all guns after a school shooting.

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  3. The mother of that child who took a gun to school and shot the teacher needs to be prosecuted.
    And the NRA needs to be run out of town.
    But this is the United States of Guns so ....

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    1. So . . . we need to work extra hard to bring about change.

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  4. So very true! I've been following that story trying to understand how a thing like that can happen. So many questions.

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    1. There was an interesting article in the Washington Post, 6 year olds have very little impulse control, Virginia law is insufficient to really hold the parents responsible.

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    1. Other countries have figured this out.

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  6. The difference between our countries is here is generally only criminals have guns. Citizens generally don't and those who do face very strict laws about keeping them and using them. Shooting of innocent people is rare.

    I recently read in a forum of an American who for work reasons would be living in England for one year. He wanted to know if he could bring his handgun or buy one once he arrived. Sure, was the reply. Just join a gun club, sit an exam, provide two character references from English citizens who have known you more than two years, install a secure locked gun cabinet where you live to store the gun when it is not being used, obtain a mental health approval from your doctor who you've been a patient of for two years...and then it became really complicated with lots of buts.

    Every time I used to hear of a gun massacre in your country I would think, surely this time... Now I live with the knowledge that proper gun control won't happen in my lifetime.

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