Gun Violence is a fixture…

​I just read a chilling statement “Gun violence is a fixture in American life” published in the BBC News on April 16, 2023. It still stuns me to see in print what I’ve feared to be true.

Gun violence is so commonplace it is a reality we’ve come to know all too well. It’s a fixture, an established fact, an invariably present element, something securely and usually permanent, stuck or ‘fixed’ in our culture.

It simply is a part of who we are in this country.

In the last couple of days two people were shot and one died because of an innocent mistake—they went to the wrong house. They posed no threat and were shot because they dared being on someone’s property by mistake.

So, we watch the news, see the events unfold, witness the grieving families and communities and feel our own shock and outrage and on it goes and on it goes…and yet again on it goes.

It’s become much too common place.

Gun violence is such a fixture that I feel compelled to add some resources on this website for those struggling to learn more and tools to help cope with this ‘fixture’ in our lives.

Please check out the “Practice Tools” page for ‘Gun Violence’ resources.
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