I am sorry you were subject to that.

Good news is it didn't affect your family directly.
Bad news is it affected somebody's family directly.

We had this 2nd Amendment discussion in America for years, with little to no meaningful progress toward solution. Like with the Bible, the argument isn't over the 2nd Amendment, but a small part of it, and even that is interpreted in order to have a point to argue.

The common thread, from Columbine to your grandkid's school, to the Utah campus where Kirk was murdered is possession of a gun by someone who should never have access to one.

America isn't just a sick country. It's a scary one. Today, when national mood should be somber, the stock market is soaring to new heights. In the face of economic reality striking every American with higher costs of everything, the markets soar. Why?

Who invests? Who has extra money to invest?
Answer to that question is the same behind the largely indifferent attitude in argument about that 2nd Amendment problem.

Those banners have no place hanging on your capitol. Between that and gun violence, the problem is motivation and action to do that.
It is a recycle of the human friction of nationalism that led directly to WWI and then WWII.

Nationalism is alive and well. Putin is attempting to rebuild the USSR in name of it. Our felon vowed to MAGA, repeating the mistake.

You were right to protest. Don't let what happend stop you. If We the People are to have a voice, We the People must speak now. Not just at election time when this pestilence feeds on our likelihood to make a bad and wrong choice.


Now is the time.