The next thing I know, three female police officers are
ringing my doorbell. Some neighbor of
mine had called the police because they felt I was a public threat of some
kind. Is this the culture of fear we
want to live in? Feeling the need to call the police on one of your own suburban neighbors, standing in their own driveway, doing nothing illegal? Only after this
incident did I hear about the shooting in Las Vegas, which was the largest
national mass gun killing in history.
Could these two events possibly be connected?
Human beings are fragile.
We have emotions, nay passions, which can explode at the drop of a
hat. Anybody, given the right
circumstance, is bound to ‘lose it’ and ‘go postal’ as long as guns are so
incredibly available in a nation of about 300 million people. Out of that number, at least SOMEONE is going
to want to up the body count and make history, again.
Ergo, gun control.
Stalled for decades in this country – far behind any other country in
the world. Why? Is the gun industry more important than our
national liberty? Our right to
freedom? Our right to pursue our own
happiness? How can this be accomplished
in a gun state, gripped by fear, and controlled by police – who have almost unlimited
power! How many times has a police
officer been acquitted of obvious brutality?
Too many to count. Does every
police officer even need to carry a gun?
I don’t recall mass shootings in England, and their cops lack firearms. All lives matter.
I, for one, am tired of this constant violence and
fear. It is time for America to actually
do something about fear, violence, and gun control. I don’t think ‘President’ Trump is going to
help, I think he is going to increase the amount of fear and division in this
country, and the world – that is what his party feeds off of. And how did he get elected? Gerrymandering. Russian interference. All of these things are ridiculous. We need to save this country from going to
hell. End of story.
