Yet Again…

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Like the students who were interviewed yesterday I’ve come to expect this will happen yet again and again and again. It is a very sad reality for me to realize that these tragic events are so common place in our country and that I’ve just come to shrug my shoulders while letting out a deep breath sigh when they do.

It’s just too much, too hard to keep reacting with outrage each time because nothing really has been done to prevent these events from happening. I feel powerless to stop it. My letters to Congressional leaders and petition signing and marching have made NO difference!

A part of me is growing to accept this is just how it is and will be.

I recognize this is an enormously complex issue to solve. However it seems that we really do not value human life here in the USA. Oh, we will gladly sell you all kinds of medications and spend enormous amounts of money on medical procedures to prolong your life making it appear that making a buck is really about caring for life. But, we won’t take measures necessary to prevent gun violence from potentially killing you.

Our greed is killing us!

I can’t imagine what it is like growing up for this generation. School was a safe place for me…aside from the normal insecurities we all deal with growing up that is.

My heart aches for our children of today. They know a trauma that has not been commonplace in our country till now and a trauma our ancestors fought hard to free us from.

I do know people of color and the LGBT community in the USA have suffered with these kinds of traumas since our country’s beginning. We as a people are not innocent of doing harm to others.

My heart goes out to all the families and all the children who are grieving losses and trying to heal wounds that will affect them for the rest of their lives.

It is yet another sad day for us all…and even sadder is the reality that there are more sad days yet to come!

What will you do today to help put an end to gun violence in our country?