For Clovis parents who fought COVID masking, are you as outraged over school shootings?
We have a common-sense issue in this country. A growing minority is willing to accept anything that a political party, and its media arm, will tell them, and have all but stopped thinking for themselves.
These past two years have shown how up in arms people are willing to get when they think their children are impacted. We have seen teachers take the brunt of this rage as people have been led to believe that teachers and schools are hurting their kids. They are told this by politicians, media, and religious leaders, to name a few.
Yet, when it comes to the actual protection of our children in their classrooms from gun violence, those same people will tell you that there is nothing that can be done.
Where is the outrage? Where is the action? You stood at board meetings and yelled because you wouldn’t tolerate your children with masks intended to save them from disease. Where are you now? Where are you when a school filled with children had to cower in fear while grown adults, who were armed and trained, were too scared to go in? Do you think of those children who got dressed in their best to receive honor roll certificates to only hours later be so decimated by bullets they could only be identified with DNA samples? Do you think of those moms and dads and sisters and brothers and children who will never see those smiling faces again? Do you think of the fear that must have been felt by those trapped for an hour, calling for help, to no avail?
Do you delude yourself into thinking that “This doesn’t impact me — my kids are safe. So, I’ll just keep voting for that politician who says, it’s not the guns—it’s the mental health; the 2nd amendment has no limits; we just don’t have enough God, that’s why people are dying and there’s nothing we can do.” Enough.
We have all the proof we need that gun laws work. Country after country has taken aggressive action following just one mass shooting, and all but eliminated mass shootings. What are we waiting for? What are we “thinking” about? What are we “praying” for? A solution?? We have the solution! Politicians are gas-lighting us while they benefit from the death and destruction in one community after the next. Think about it. What are we doing?
During the Cold War, children were taught to duck and cover, as though this was somehow going to save them from a bomb. Now? We teach our kids to hide silently in corners or in closets in the hope they can escape the bullets. What are we doing?
The reason we call them common sense gun laws is because they are common sense. Stop allowing yourself to be brainwashed. Take a good look at your family and your friends. Are you OK sacrificing them to the gun lobby and the politicians that are bought by them? That’s exactly what you are doing when you walk into a voting booth and continue to put politicians like this into power. Politicians who will tell you to believe them, and not your own eyes.
As singularly focused as people became on doing everything they could to “stop the tyranny” of masks, it’s time we get singularly focused on the actual thing that is now the No. 1 cause of death for children in this country: Guns.
