Alright, lip service or action? We will all be touting the reasons that the tragedy in Newtown happened. We are horrified, we are devastated, we are angry and we grieve but will we act or wait till the next bigger and more horrific act is done as another mentally disturbed individual accesses guns. Does it matter whether they bought or stole them, it doesn't lessen the crime. there are over 300 mi...
llion guns in this country of supposed civility, one for every man woman and child plus a few extra. I'm not attacking your 2nd amendment right, but I fervently believe that our forefathers who wrote the constitution hoped that someday this one would not be needed. Reality is that the gun laws are not strict enough and to loosely written. I do not want to take your gun away, I just want to know that you are competent and responsible enough to have one. I want to know that this essential tool for your peace of mind is not accessible to any one else. Perhaps, a law that makes you an accessory to any crime that's committed with that weapon. Secondly let's recognize the need to reinstitute help for the mentally ill whose programs were drastically cut during the Reagan years ( a president who was shot by a mentally ill man, how ironic). Doomsday comes in many ways, yesterday it came to Newtown in the shape of a 20 year old man, it also came to 23 other individuals in this country on that same day due to gun violence. Let's find that common ground of responsibility. Yesterday, for the first time, I saw our President cry, he was not alone, we all cried with him. let those lives not be lost in vain, grieve then work to never let this happen again.
