We are ALL responsible.
We are ALL responsible.
The Issue
2/14/18
Another sad day in America. And we are all responsible.
We the people are responsible. We are talking and saying there needs to be change. But what are we doing? Talk is cheap. We are responsible because we are not voting. We are not protesting. We are not boycotting. We are not mailing letters. We are sitting and waiting for others to make changes.
Gun owners…you are responsible. You are so scared that someone is going to take your guns away. Guess what? Nobody wants to take your damn guns away. We don’t think guns are the whole issue. But gun LAWS are. We want reform! We don’t believe that military grade weapons belong in the hands of civilians. We don’t believe that people with mental illness should be allowed to buy said weapons. We don’t believe that guns that can fire multiple rounds in seconds belong in the hands of just anyone. If you STILL have a problem with that, then you are thicker than mud! And selfish. Is your right to bear arms more important than someone’s child’s life? Is your gun worth more than someone’s child? Let me put it this way. Will your world crumble if you lost your gun? Would you fall into a deep depression if you lost your gun? Would life as you know it cease to exist if you lost your gun? Would your gun safe become a shrine to the gun you so violently lost? Will you lose all your will to live another day if your gun was ripped from your hands? If so, you have my thoughts and prayers. Listen, I get the value of guns. I do. But appropriate guns. Want a handgun for protection? That makes sense. A rifle for hunting? Makes sense. But damn it, our forefathers hunted with muskets and gun powder. Is Bambi packing that much heat that you need something bigger? If you are hunting bear or boar and you doubt your skills, then maybe you should stick to rabbits. But it’s time YOU start speaking up! If you disagree with the current laws, speak up! Too many parents will never, EVER get to kiss their kids good night again. But you go…go ahead…go tuck your guns in for the night and tell them to sleep tight. And then YOU rest easy knowing your precious guns are safe while those parents plan funerals.
Gun makers…oh boy…just because you CAN create a weapon that can annihilate dozens in minutes doesn’t mean you SHOULD, you greedy sons of b******. YOU have a responsibility. YOU! This is on YOU! Where is your obligation to better society? Where is your conscience? When will you draw the line and say, Hmmm, maybe we should just shelve this one? Whatever your answer, it’s too late. I hope their souls haunt you for the rest of your days. I hope your last moments on earth are not quiet and peaceful. I hope you are not surrounded by your loved ones. I hope you don’t hear birds chirping or the whisper of I love you from those who care most about you. No. You don’t deserve that. Those children deserved that. They didn’t deserve for their final minutes on Earth to be filled with fear and tears and gunshots and screams and death. This is on YOU!
Video Game designers…I’m putting this on you, too. When I was a kid, the only shooting game we had was Duck Hunt. I’m sure ducks everywhere ran for cover. But today…shooting games are so easily in the hands of elementary children. We went from shooting pixelated ducks to shooting realistic human beings. On our phones, our tablets, our TVs. Blood splatters on our screens. Dead bodies counted for points. You can’t believe that YOU have no role in this either.
Schools…this is on you! Start demanding more money for school psychologists, counselors, professionals who can help! Speak up. Stop allowing your concerns to be dismissed. Teachers see mental issues YOUNG. It doesn’t come out of nowhere. We see it young. And we take notes. We write down an anecdotal. We make copies of drawings. We make copies of words. We go to superiors whose hands are tied because there is no money for professionals to assess these children. And these kids leave. Then one day, you read about them in the news. And you say…yup, I called it. We need to stop just calling it and we need to be heard!
Parents…this is on you, too! Start raising your children with consequences! Start instilling kindness. Show them how to care. Show them how to take criticism. TALK to your children. Listen to them. Pay attention to them. Watch them. Watch what they are watching. Watch what they are playing. Watch what they are doing. Be IN their lives. Remind them how important it is to be GOOD. Teach them respect for life.
Finally, our government. YOU have failed US. AGAIN. We have been asking, no, BEGGING for change. Instead, you choose money. Again and again, you choose money. You choose money over the safety of your citizens. You choose money over logic. You choose money over morals. You choose money over obligation. You have an obligation to US, the people. You took an oath. To protect us. To lead us. To SERVE us. But you have failed us. Generations of politicians. You have failed us. This is not a liberal-conservative issue. This is not a party issue. This is a HUGE, GLARING, blemish on our nation. You have closed psychiatric facilities. You have taken money away from schools. You have allowed this to happen. Again and again.
You MUST have gone into politics for the right reasons. You wanted to serve the people. You wanted to make this country better. But somewhere along your career, you lost your way. And you lost something. You lost your hearts. You lost your reasoning. You lost your beacon. You lost your logic. And consequently, you lost our trust. You lost our faith. And now you have blood on your hands. You’re serving yourselves and you’re serving the gun companies and you’re serving the lobbyists and you’re serving the NRA and you’re doing US a disservice. You are doing our children a disservice. You are doing our nation a disservice. And now you have blood on your hands. Every senator, congressmen, governor, mayor, president…this is on YOU! This does not fall on our current administration. This falls on EVERY administration. This could have ended after Columbine. But it didn't. This could have ended after Sandy Hook. But it didn't. This could have ended after Vegas. But it didn't. This could have ended years ago! But every single one of you is keeping this cycle going because you are serving yourselves. And now, your hands are bloodied once again. You are the lawmakers. Yet YOU are creating laws allowing this to happen. You don’t allow an 18-year-old to buy beer but you sign laws so they can buy weapons. You make illogical, ridiculous, laws that serve nobody but yourselves! You make laws protecting unborn babies that can’t survive outside the womb but once they are here, good luck kids!
But you stop, and you send your thoughts and prayers. Continue to send those thoughts and prayers. Because apparently your thoughts and prayers just make it all okay. You do know that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting change, right? What change has come from your thoughts and prayers? Will we ever see change come from your thoughts and prayers? But you go…continue to send those thoughts and prayers. You certainly do a great job sending your thoughts and prayers.
And you didn’t get to where you are without knowing that our constitution is a living document, right? I’m sure you learned that somewhere. I mean, that’s your job! Then I’m sure you also know that it means it must evolve and adapt to the times. Well, if guns have evolved and changed, then shouldn’t the laws governing them evolve and change, too?
It’s Valentine’s Day…you get to go home tonight. You get to kiss your loved ones goodnight. You get to bring your wife flowers. You get to give your kids chocolate. But 17 sets of parents get to id their children. 17 sets of parents get to plan funerals. 17 sets of parents get to go on for the rest of their lives without their hearts. Because somewhere along the way, you lost yours.
Today is a sad day for our nation. Another sad day. And what’s even sadder is that nothing will change. Those with the power to do something will once again do nothing. And WE the people will continue to beg for change.
Finally, to our current administration…this hasn’t exactly been a scandal free term, has it? It was tarnished before it even began. But now you have the chance to go down as the administration that FINALLY fixes this. Think about that. You have the power to change something. You can actually SERVE us, the people. We want change. For crying out loud, be the administration that creates the change that ends this cycle of insanity. That ends this. And please…go find your hearts. Because ours are breaking.
Signed,
We The People
The Issue
2/14/18
Another sad day in America. And we are all responsible.
We the people are responsible. We are talking and saying there needs to be change. But what are we doing? Talk is cheap. We are responsible because we are not voting. We are not protesting. We are not boycotting. We are not mailing letters. We are sitting and waiting for others to make changes.
Gun owners…you are responsible. You are so scared that someone is going to take your guns away. Guess what? Nobody wants to take your damn guns away. We don’t think guns are the whole issue. But gun LAWS are. We want reform! We don’t believe that military grade weapons belong in the hands of civilians. We don’t believe that people with mental illness should be allowed to buy said weapons. We don’t believe that guns that can fire multiple rounds in seconds belong in the hands of just anyone. If you STILL have a problem with that, then you are thicker than mud! And selfish. Is your right to bear arms more important than someone’s child’s life? Is your gun worth more than someone’s child? Let me put it this way. Will your world crumble if you lost your gun? Would you fall into a deep depression if you lost your gun? Would life as you know it cease to exist if you lost your gun? Would your gun safe become a shrine to the gun you so violently lost? Will you lose all your will to live another day if your gun was ripped from your hands? If so, you have my thoughts and prayers. Listen, I get the value of guns. I do. But appropriate guns. Want a handgun for protection? That makes sense. A rifle for hunting? Makes sense. But damn it, our forefathers hunted with muskets and gun powder. Is Bambi packing that much heat that you need something bigger? If you are hunting bear or boar and you doubt your skills, then maybe you should stick to rabbits. But it’s time YOU start speaking up! If you disagree with the current laws, speak up! Too many parents will never, EVER get to kiss their kids good night again. But you go…go ahead…go tuck your guns in for the night and tell them to sleep tight. And then YOU rest easy knowing your precious guns are safe while those parents plan funerals.
Gun makers…oh boy…just because you CAN create a weapon that can annihilate dozens in minutes doesn’t mean you SHOULD, you greedy sons of b******. YOU have a responsibility. YOU! This is on YOU! Where is your obligation to better society? Where is your conscience? When will you draw the line and say, Hmmm, maybe we should just shelve this one? Whatever your answer, it’s too late. I hope their souls haunt you for the rest of your days. I hope your last moments on earth are not quiet and peaceful. I hope you are not surrounded by your loved ones. I hope you don’t hear birds chirping or the whisper of I love you from those who care most about you. No. You don’t deserve that. Those children deserved that. They didn’t deserve for their final minutes on Earth to be filled with fear and tears and gunshots and screams and death. This is on YOU!
Video Game designers…I’m putting this on you, too. When I was a kid, the only shooting game we had was Duck Hunt. I’m sure ducks everywhere ran for cover. But today…shooting games are so easily in the hands of elementary children. We went from shooting pixelated ducks to shooting realistic human beings. On our phones, our tablets, our TVs. Blood splatters on our screens. Dead bodies counted for points. You can’t believe that YOU have no role in this either.
Schools…this is on you! Start demanding more money for school psychologists, counselors, professionals who can help! Speak up. Stop allowing your concerns to be dismissed. Teachers see mental issues YOUNG. It doesn’t come out of nowhere. We see it young. And we take notes. We write down an anecdotal. We make copies of drawings. We make copies of words. We go to superiors whose hands are tied because there is no money for professionals to assess these children. And these kids leave. Then one day, you read about them in the news. And you say…yup, I called it. We need to stop just calling it and we need to be heard!
Parents…this is on you, too! Start raising your children with consequences! Start instilling kindness. Show them how to care. Show them how to take criticism. TALK to your children. Listen to them. Pay attention to them. Watch them. Watch what they are watching. Watch what they are playing. Watch what they are doing. Be IN their lives. Remind them how important it is to be GOOD. Teach them respect for life.
Finally, our government. YOU have failed US. AGAIN. We have been asking, no, BEGGING for change. Instead, you choose money. Again and again, you choose money. You choose money over the safety of your citizens. You choose money over logic. You choose money over morals. You choose money over obligation. You have an obligation to US, the people. You took an oath. To protect us. To lead us. To SERVE us. But you have failed us. Generations of politicians. You have failed us. This is not a liberal-conservative issue. This is not a party issue. This is a HUGE, GLARING, blemish on our nation. You have closed psychiatric facilities. You have taken money away from schools. You have allowed this to happen. Again and again.
You MUST have gone into politics for the right reasons. You wanted to serve the people. You wanted to make this country better. But somewhere along your career, you lost your way. And you lost something. You lost your hearts. You lost your reasoning. You lost your beacon. You lost your logic. And consequently, you lost our trust. You lost our faith. And now you have blood on your hands. You’re serving yourselves and you’re serving the gun companies and you’re serving the lobbyists and you’re serving the NRA and you’re doing US a disservice. You are doing our children a disservice. You are doing our nation a disservice. And now you have blood on your hands. Every senator, congressmen, governor, mayor, president…this is on YOU! This does not fall on our current administration. This falls on EVERY administration. This could have ended after Columbine. But it didn't. This could have ended after Sandy Hook. But it didn't. This could have ended after Vegas. But it didn't. This could have ended years ago! But every single one of you is keeping this cycle going because you are serving yourselves. And now, your hands are bloodied once again. You are the lawmakers. Yet YOU are creating laws allowing this to happen. You don’t allow an 18-year-old to buy beer but you sign laws so they can buy weapons. You make illogical, ridiculous, laws that serve nobody but yourselves! You make laws protecting unborn babies that can’t survive outside the womb but once they are here, good luck kids!
But you stop, and you send your thoughts and prayers. Continue to send those thoughts and prayers. Because apparently your thoughts and prayers just make it all okay. You do know that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting change, right? What change has come from your thoughts and prayers? Will we ever see change come from your thoughts and prayers? But you go…continue to send those thoughts and prayers. You certainly do a great job sending your thoughts and prayers.
And you didn’t get to where you are without knowing that our constitution is a living document, right? I’m sure you learned that somewhere. I mean, that’s your job! Then I’m sure you also know that it means it must evolve and adapt to the times. Well, if guns have evolved and changed, then shouldn’t the laws governing them evolve and change, too?
It’s Valentine’s Day…you get to go home tonight. You get to kiss your loved ones goodnight. You get to bring your wife flowers. You get to give your kids chocolate. But 17 sets of parents get to id their children. 17 sets of parents get to plan funerals. 17 sets of parents get to go on for the rest of their lives without their hearts. Because somewhere along the way, you lost yours.
Today is a sad day for our nation. Another sad day. And what’s even sadder is that nothing will change. Those with the power to do something will once again do nothing. And WE the people will continue to beg for change.
Finally, to our current administration…this hasn’t exactly been a scandal free term, has it? It was tarnished before it even began. But now you have the chance to go down as the administration that FINALLY fixes this. Think about that. You have the power to change something. You can actually SERVE us, the people. We want change. For crying out loud, be the administration that creates the change that ends this cycle of insanity. That ends this. And please…go find your hearts. Because ours are breaking.
Signed,
We The People
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