Watching TV news this morning, one major news item was a lesson on how to protect yourself to survive mass shootings! Really??? Our church had clinics on protection of the same! Our children have lock in place drills and how to hold their hands over their crouched bodies!
My 85 year old mind and body both rebel in unbelief of what is happening, and rational thinking and dialogue doesn’t seem to work, so I am almost afraid to voice any opposition to a movement of “my rights” over the fear, distrust, suspicions and angst that mass shootings have brought to the forefront of this nations image.
Do you know that the leading cause of death in children and teens in this country is Firearms? Not cancer, not car accidents, your child is more likely to die by a gun than any other cause.
This blog comes from a woman whose husband had a cabinet full of hunting guns….none of which could shoot over 2 bullets before reloading. Assault weapons and magazines of many more bullets are weapons of war, not recreational and not for personal protection that one has a right to provide.
I keep hearing that this is a mental health issue. There are mentally ill people in every country in the world, and they don’t have the problem of mass shootings that we do. I saw a local church were doing what Isaiah the prophet foretold about the coming of the Prince of Peace to this world, that we would beat our weapons into plowshares. Let’s begin that mindset today. May it be so.
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