My children and I have been home all week - the University where I work and the K-12 school that is attached to it have been shut down because of a threat of violence scrawled on a bathroom wall just a few days after 8 college students and one faculty member were shot and killed at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon. My husband drove to Louisville this morning for a flight. There was an "active shooter situation" at Jefferson Community and Technical College this afternoon. He flew to Houston, the site of another campus shooting incident today. These were just 3 of the many gun incidents across the country this week, adding to the 294 ones that have occurred this year.
The frustrating thing to me is that when (if?) this spate of shootings ends, everyone will forget about it and move on to the next news event. 20 FIRST GRADERS were KILLED in a mass shooting and nothing, nothing was done. Nothing. And people forgot. They care about paying too many taxes and abortion and healthcare and they let their congresspeople know about those things, but they throw up their hands over guns: "it's in the constitution;" "you can't take away our guns;" "it's too hard;" "there are too many guns out there;" "criminals will get them anyway;" blah, blah, blah.
If this pisses you off like it does me, don't just "like" or comment on this blog: write a letter to the editor of your local newspaper, to your elected officials, give money to the Brady campaign, take action with Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense America; tweet your congresspeople; do SOMETHING to make your voice heard. If we all stop just throwing up our hands, maybe the politicians will start listening.
Read this article for some good talking points to get you started...
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