Epic Sadness

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Read a story about a Texas man who took his 11-year-old daughter hunting with him.

He shot and killed her.

Mistook her for a deer.

There was also a story about a man who brought a gun to a kid’s birthday party.

It went off and a 10-year-old was shot.

There were no charges filed.

Every city, every weekend, death.

We caught the 48 Hours on the Aubery case.

Those 3 men (who were rightly convicted) truly believed that they had every right to hunt and kill that kid.

For snooping around a construction site?

I have come to accept the fact that there is a large population of people who think much differently than me.

Especially regarding the need to bring a gun with them everywhere they go. The fact that the kid killed two people at a protest, and got cleared of all charges was incredibly disconcerting to me.

Vigilantism won’t work.

There are too many people who are one thought away from immersing themselves into a real life game of ‘Call of Duty’.

Rittenhouse fancied himself a cop and a medic.

He wasn’t trained to put a band-aid on, or get a cat out of a tree.

The cops who saw him that night should’ve let him know that his help was not required.

How did the people he shot dead not think HE was an active shooter?

And don’t come back with the self-defense garbage.

We can’t simply throw it open and allow private citizens to play Magnum P.I.

It’s obvious that there are a whole bunch of responsible gun owners who can’t even make it through a party or a trip into the woods without gunning down a kid.

Tough world to live in.

Epic sadness.

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