I didn't want to write this post!
I am both sickened and heartsick.
The assignation of Charlie Kirk yesterday was horrific,
and my heart goes out to his family and friends.
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The murder of Charlie Kirk yesterday was another tragic event
in a long list of political motivated attacks and killings in recent years.
People on the "left" and the "right" have been attacking and killing fellow Americans,
because they disagree with their political views and actions.
Political violence is wrong, period.
When is enough going to be enough to promote change?
Are we going to continue to spiral down into worse and worse violence,
or are we going start reaching out to those who think differently from us
in an attempt to better understand each other better and to find common ground?
Guns and violence cannot continue to be the answer.
Our country is broken, and we need to find a way to mend it.
Tear gas outside the United States Capitol on 6 January 2021
Mostly lost in the atrocious news of Charlie Kirk's death yesterday
was the news of yet another school shooting in Colorado.
A high school student at Evergreen High School shot two of his classmates
then turned the gun on himself.
The unidentified shooter died, and his two victims were hospitalized in critical condition.
One student has since been released, the other remains in critical condition.
When is enough going to be enough?
Columbine wasn't. Sandy Hook wasn't.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas wasn't. Uvalde wasn't.
I have written about school gun violence in the past. Friday, May 27, 2022
I almost wrote about it again, after the heartbreaking shooting
at the Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis on August 27, 2025.
As I see it, America loves its guns more than its children.
Actions speak louder than words.
A common denominator in political violence and school violence is guns.
These aren't the only kinds of gun violence.
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's
Center for Gun Violence Solution's
most recent report on gun violence in the US (2023) states:
"27,300 people died by firearm suicide, 17,927 died by firearm homicide, 463 died by unintentional gun injury, and an estimated 604 were fatally shot by law enforcement. In addition, an average of more than 200 Americans visit the emergency department for nonfatal firearm injuries each day." Source
When is enough going to be enough?
How many people have to die before we enact changes to our gun laws?
The October 1, 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas, with its 60 dead, 413 wounded,
and 394 injured in the gunfire-induced panic wasn't enough.
The Las Vegas Sign on The Strip, October 9, 2017,
covered in flowers in the wake of the 2017 Las Vegas Strip shooting.
Political violence, school shootings, and gun violence in our country
continue to shock and stun me.
Something has got to change!
We need to reach out and communicate with those who have different political views.
Not kill each other.
We need to address school shootings and find real solutions.
Not sit back and accept our children continuing to die.
We need to strengthen our patchwork quilt of state and federal gun laws
with some reasonable, research-based changes such as
universal background checks, waiting periods between buying and possessing guns,
firearms safety training, and secure gun storage.
Not wallow in the carnage and accept it as a way of life.
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I'm really discouraged right now.
Every time I think of Charlie Kirk, I literally feel nauseous
from the horror, the senselessness, and the loss of his young life.
And I feel heartsick for his wife and children.
I didn't agree with him politically, but I would have loved to have conversation with him.
No one should be murdered like that!
I feel almost hopeless over the continued school shootings
and the unending gun violence in our country.
But I haven't given up.
I'll regroup and continue to stand up and speak about my beliefs.
I have faith in our country.
We've gone through very dark periods in the past.
I believe we'll get through this difficult time too.
Have a good weekend everyone!
Till next time ~
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