Remember the school playground of your childhood, or the playground of your grown children? Jungle gyms, metal slides, merry go rounds and the good old game of dodge ball?
Children hung by their knees from gyms of all heights with heads toward the cold hard ground? Merry go rounds , if they didn’t make one nauseous, could by centrifugal force send you spinning out on the cold hard ground. Oh, and dodge ball……thought too competitive and possibly harmful by the impact of a soft, air filled ball thrown at your child, have all been eliminated from the school scene.
I just heard on TV that the leading cause of death of school age children is gun fire!!! Not cancer, not accident, not viruses, most deaths are by gun fire.
If this doesn’t make you furious, I don’t think we live on the same planet!! An ER doctor was on internet this morning saying they actually have refresh training in how to handle gun wounds in small children, whose injuries are much more serious considering the small organs that take impact of a bullet with much more damage. Damn it!! This makes me sick to my stomach.
I am tired of hearing that it a mental health problem or that “people” kill people not guns. All other countries have mentally ill people, but what we have that those countries do not, is assault weapons that people shout about their right to own. Bull! That is the cry of weak people who hide behind a false premise without responsibility. It takes a strong, strong person to forego a perceived personal right for the good of their fellowman.
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