Sandy Hook December 14

One of my good high school friend’s birthday is December 14. I was looking for a way to contact her in 2012 when the news came on of Sandy Hook. Of course no person with any humanity could complete that horrific day or ever forget it afterward.

Sandy Hook Promise should have been on my links list long ago. Now it is. Parents who have known unimaginable grief turning that absolute worst, absolute worst pain that a family can experience into purpose for policy to address the gun problem.

The faces of those children, and their teachers, cannot fail to strike the soul of any person with a soul.

I’ve lived in Chicago and now Texas.

Chicago has its reputation, deserved…mostly Southside or Westside…but sometimes even fancy Near North and Michigan Avenue (though a lot less often) neighborhoods are places where just walking the street can bring random gun violence. And it’s often children and other young people in the crosshairs.

And now in Texas that truly frightening gun law, carry anywhere, anytime, no training or licensing. That’s effing insane.

How many innocent people need to be shot and killed by the violent emotionally disturbed with access to deadly weapons before our society just has had enough?

It can’t in any near way compare to the grief of the Sandy Hook families, but shooting innocent animals also makes my blood boil. Calling it “sport” is just sick.

My Dad used to go on “hunting trips” so very many decades ago (quite different times then) when my younger brother asked him “why?” Yeah, “why?” And my Dad just stopped hunting right then and there. That’s my Dad.

Here in Texas I briefly knew someone who shopped a hunting rifle from Europe, travelling here to pick it up and go shoot doves. Doves, the very image of peace. Sick.

(And I never could watch Bambi’s mother get killed. Literally sickened me.)

(I only once have been afraid to be in a house with an angry person with a gun…the dove hunting rifle “man”. I got out safely, reasonably fast, but as a volunteer in Illinois, California, and Texas, I’ve counseled many women, mostly, and a few kids, a little, who did not always have the resources which I have had, and still do, to find a place where they could feel safe.)

(Most of the men in my life have not been angry and most certainly did not do guns.)

Thanks President Biden, for speaking out on the urgent necessity for an advanced society’s more rational gun policy.

How hard it will be.

Lots of profit in that business.

Won’t disgrace my site with the name of the speaker but “cold dead hands”, a quote most everyone knows…about way weird gun lust.

How hard it will be.

But too many innocents have perished.