Anniversary?
Saw a show with the parents of some of those poor children who were slaughtered in Connecticut last year. The news program kept talking about the anniversary.
Doesn't seem like much of an anniversary to me, and like many others, there are dates, for me and my family, on the calendar, that are about nothing but remembering pain.
How do you live broken-hearted?
Those poor parents.
And each of them spoke about how disappointed that they were about how the deaths of their children were turned into talking points for the pro-gun lobby and the anti-gun lobby.
About how it wasn't about the kids anymore.
And it shames me to think about it in that way, but what's worse are the shootings that continue.
And not just shootings at schools.
But yet...
...Nothing.
One group saying throw all the guns you can into the ocean.
The other saying we need more guns to solve the guns problem.
Nonsensical rhetoric to a Mom who isn't getting a child ready for school.
A dad who's not throwing a ball to his son.
An uncle who isn't buying Christmas gifts for a nephew.
A no-longer doting grandmother who now cries herself to sleep every night.
That's what was lost.
Nary a single background check law added to the books after such a tragic event.
No mental health laws passed.
No national law on restricting access to weaponry.
Nothing.
One of the Dad's spoke in terms of not being able to fight to make a difference because a lot of his fight to chase a great life died right there in that classroom.
That's what was lost.
The spirits of a whole lot of people were broken.
And the murders rage on.
In a civilized country that doesn't seem to know a way to talk about an answer.
Soon enough we are going to be filled with anniversary days that we can't even count anymore.
And that's nothing to commemorate.
Doesn't seem like much of an anniversary to me, and like many others, there are dates, for me and my family, on the calendar, that are about nothing but remembering pain.
How do you live broken-hearted?
Those poor parents.
And each of them spoke about how disappointed that they were about how the deaths of their children were turned into talking points for the pro-gun lobby and the anti-gun lobby.
About how it wasn't about the kids anymore.
And it shames me to think about it in that way, but what's worse are the shootings that continue.
And not just shootings at schools.
But yet...
...Nothing.
One group saying throw all the guns you can into the ocean.
The other saying we need more guns to solve the guns problem.
Nonsensical rhetoric to a Mom who isn't getting a child ready for school.
A dad who's not throwing a ball to his son.
An uncle who isn't buying Christmas gifts for a nephew.
A no-longer doting grandmother who now cries herself to sleep every night.
That's what was lost.
Nary a single background check law added to the books after such a tragic event.
No mental health laws passed.
No national law on restricting access to weaponry.
Nothing.
One of the Dad's spoke in terms of not being able to fight to make a difference because a lot of his fight to chase a great life died right there in that classroom.
That's what was lost.
The spirits of a whole lot of people were broken.
And the murders rage on.
In a civilized country that doesn't seem to know a way to talk about an answer.
Soon enough we are going to be filled with anniversary days that we can't even count anymore.
And that's nothing to commemorate.
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