Perhaps Now?

As soon as the 'news bulletin' flashed across the television screen that a GOP Congressman practing for a traditional baseball game to be played against Democrat counterparts had been shot, I thought the following: I'll bet the gunman is a white guy because in America angry-deranged white males most often do these terrible shooting acts; black males more often shoot and kill each other over drugs that other white guys are making a lot of money from the inner city drug sales. My second thought was to pray for the shooting victims, the first responders and surgeons who would be called upon and finally to pray for the families who wait anxiously for news during such hideous crimes.

After some time passed, I began hearing first hand reports and comments from witnesses. Here are just a few of those comments and thoughts I held about another shooting known as The Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting:
Congressmens' witness comments appear in quotations / my thoughts in parenthesis>>>
"We were experiencing horrible chaos." (Can you imagine the chaos felt by twenty slaughtered six year old children?)
"We felt safe on a baseball field." (Those 20-first graders felt safe sitting at school tables.)
"We knew the shooter had an automatic rifle." (The children were too young and innocent to grasp and understand what was happening.)
"We began the day with normal routine looking forward to playing baseball for fun" (Those six-year old elementary school children were dropped off by parents who were engrossed in routine while  their children were looking forward to their Christmas break with gifts and laughter.)

Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan addressed fellow congresspeople immediately after the terrible shooting. Ryan stated, "We (lawmakers) are united." (The parents of first graders' Olivia Engel, Dylan Hockley and Jessie Lewis were hoping for Congressional unity as Congress was asked by President  Obama to enhance America's gun control measures.

Well whata ya know? On Wednesday, June 14, It seems many of our Congresspeople were shocked as they said, "THIS COULD happen to any of us." No shit!

It just might be a good time to get out of bed with the NRA and then after enacting stricter gun laws address the need to re-think mental hospitals' value. In 1981, our federal government reduced mental hospital funding by 30%. From that moment the inadequate caring for the mentally ill has become   our nation's shameful legacy.
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Man with a gun over there