The war in Iraq is not the only place America is losing its children. Monday was a stark reminder of the Columbine massacre, the worst incident of its kind. Yet, a few are still touting that a ban on guns won't solve the problem. You would think by now, someone would have woken up and smelt the coffee. Oh, hell no! 33 people are dead and this isn't the first time this has happened. What else is needed to convince a nation that it's time for a change? No matter the message of condolences sent and apologies made, you cannot bring back 33 people and fill the void their death has caused. They all had families who loved and cherished them and you cannot replace that.
Emily Hilscher and Erin Peterson were both 18, Caitlin Hammaren and Mary Karen Read, 19. Erin's father said, "My baby didn’t make it." How do you erase such deep seated pain in the heart of a parent?
Ryan Clark, 22, and studying for a triple major in Biology, English and Psychology; how do you begin to tell his parents that they will never see their beloved son again? His future has been buried and he had no say in it. He was denied the chance to make a decision about his own future.
Bottom line is they all had a future to look forward to. While it remains unclear what motivated the attack on students and lecturers; isn't it time someone locked up those guns? When are we going to stop producing tragedies with our hands? When are we going to stop making weapons to kill each other with?
There are questions to be answered but how about the biggest of all; it was promised after Columbine that this would not happen on American soil again. Yet it is happening everyday on the streets. Where is that promise or were they just words passing through thin air?
There will be verbose reports giving account of what happened but no piece of paper is going to solve this nightmare created to destroy more lives. Get rid of the guns. You may not be able to get all of them today but you can at least try and save one future? What else is there to say but to stop killing our babies, our sons, our daughters, our mothers and our fathers. Stop Making the guns and stop killing us.
How many more tragedies need to be turned into a documentary or film before it sinks in that there is a new epidemic in the land? Get rid of the guns and stop killing us.
Soul searching but at whose expense
Soul searching but at whose expense
Stop Killing Us.
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