So, why, exactly, is it NOT the right time to get all political about gun control? Why do people keep saying this? When, exactly, would be the right time? Never? If I hear that comment one more time I will rip the cord out of the back of the television. Let's use this anger and energy and outrage for some good. And although there is tremendous shock to the killing of 20 six and seven year olds in their school, is it really less awful to have children killed and maimed one at a time by guns through random violence, accident, and design as happens every single day?
And where is the outrage that a mother who had a son with acknowledged behavior and mental health issues - one news report I read said that she had told people he had Asperger's syndrome - had guns in her home? Yes, she is dead and that's sad, but I can't feel all that bad for her as she did such a stupid, stupid thing. In fact the current Connecticut gun laws had stopped the son from buying a gun, but the mother had them readily available to him. And she had assault weapons! She was worried about her safety in her large home in her safest town in America? Didn't she ever hear of intruder alarm systems that will summon the cops? THEY have guns so you don't have to have them.
And some of the Republicans who now think that we should arm school personnel or have even MORE gun availability so we could shoot people we think are the bad guys.... This just leaves me speechless.
And I know that there will not be sweeping change. We will all wail and gnash our teeth and politicians will blather on and Christmas will come and this will fade from the news and maybe, just maybe, Congress will pass some watered down bill that will do little good because it has to pacify the card-carrying, gun-toting gun lovers, and some child will get shot and it will barely make the local news because it's not 21 children that were shot.
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