More Thoughts and Prayers

If nothing was done after Sandy Hook, nothing will be done.  I don’t have the strength to look at this deeper than with a clinical, analytical perspective.  Sandy Hook broke me.  Made me numb to these incidents.  America doesn’t care about it’s children enough to put their lives over an ideology that’s been repeatedly proven false.  There is no reason a civilian should have access to a functioning military style assault rife.  

NONE.

I used them when I served.  They are not for self defense.  They are designed to kill only one type of target.  People.  The trite rebuttal from the NRA and their lobbyists is that “crazy people” will find a way to kill anyway.  That’s true.  Knives, bombs, and trucks are also weapons of choice for mass casualty killers.  Evil always finds away.  But so does good.  You don’t just throw your hands up.  Should we stop arresting people for murder since we’ll all die anyway?  Of course not because that’s absurd.  So is refusing to curb gun laws and make them uniform at the federal level.  I shouldn’t be able to buy a weapon banned in New York in Pennsylvania then simply drive back to NY and use it.  It’s even more absurd that no other country on the planet has this problem because they aren’t deliberately mis-interpreting the right to bear arms as the need to own the most destructive weapons possible.      I’m also not willing to turn our nations schools into de facto prisons just to satisfy the NRAs vision of a fully armed America.  We’re supposed to be better than this.

It’s long past time to stop the self delusion about “good guys with guns” and admit the weapons free-for-all is literally killing our children.  Looks past the sound bites and political tribalism and ask yourself if your beliefs are worth your children’s lives because that’s what it’s come down to.  Is the NRAs version of America one you want to live in?  Everyone with guns only means we all get shot.  I’m spent.  I have as much compassion left to give as lawmakers do.  None.  They say they offer thoughts and prayers but I wonder what God would accept prayers from men and women who have the power to save children but choose not to?  Not any God I serve.  How about for lent we give up our egos and look at the world for what it is, not what we’d like it to be.  Our babies’ lives literally depend on it.

This is the Wanderer’s Voice.