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Tuesday, May 24, 2022
In Memoriam: The Innocents of Uvalde
I have no words for this unspeakable horror, only tears. And rage at the unspeakable politicians who allow these massacres to go on and on, and do nothing about it.
FYI: Contrary to what President Biden and Senator Chris Murphy have said today, these mass shootings do not happen "only in America." They have been happening all over the world in the last quarter-century, even in totalitarian states like Russia. But other countries have done something about it. Here are a couple of Wikipedia articles for further reading and reflection:
Mass shooting (with links to articles on individual countries)
We were eating dinner when the evening news came on. I had to turn off the TV. Sad beyond words, sick and angry with the gun culture in America, the NRA, and the republican's phony reasoning about the 2nd Amendment. Photos (Christmas cards!) of politician's families, including children, posing with guns and assault weapons disgust me. This from NY Times morning brief: "If American gun violence is no longer surprising, it still is shocking. On an average day in the U.S., more than 35 people are murdered with a gun. No other affluent country in the world has a gun homicide rate nearly as high. Consider this chart, by my colleague Ashley Wu:" (I cannot copy/paste the chart here) but the US is clearly the outlier and the chart is for 2019...it has increased since then. Our Congresspersons have blood on their hands. Enough!
Yes, and way more than enough. This is not civilization, it is madness, utter madness, to allow mass murder to go on every damn day of the year and not do anything about it.
Gun control is not the magic answer to all this, which has complex roots - but it would certainly be a damn good start. Australia, NZ, the UK, and other countries have, after just one such massacre, enacted gun controls that have effectively stopped such mass murders (though not individual murders, of course).
I don't know how the lying, conniving Republican sons of bitches in Congress can sit on their hands and do nothing about it - when their own children and families are at as much risk as anyone else of being murdered at school, at church, in a grocery store, hospital, nursing home, and every other place that used to be safe. Bastards!
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is discord, harmony; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy. Grant that I may seek not so much to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen.
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We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love.
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Churches say that the expression of love in a heterosexual monogamous relationship includes the physical, the touching, embracing, kissing, the genital act - the totality of our love makes each of us grow to become increasingly godlike and compassionate. If this is so for the heterosexual, what earthly reason have we to say that it is not the case with the homosexual?
It is a perversion if you say to me that a person chooses to be homosexual. You must be crazy to choose a way of life that exposes you to a kind of hatred. It's like saying you choose to be black in a race-infected society.
If God, as they say, is homophobic, I wouldn't worship that God.
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2 comments:
We were eating dinner when the evening news came on. I had to turn off the TV. Sad beyond words, sick and angry with the gun culture in America, the NRA, and the republican's phony reasoning about the 2nd Amendment. Photos (Christmas cards!) of politician's families, including children, posing with guns and assault weapons disgust me. This from NY Times morning brief: "If American gun violence is no longer surprising, it still is shocking. On an average day in the U.S., more than 35 people are murdered with a gun. No other affluent country in the world has a gun homicide rate nearly as high. Consider this chart, by my colleague Ashley Wu:" (I cannot copy/paste the chart here) but the US is clearly the outlier and the chart is for 2019...it has increased since then. Our Congresspersons have blood on their hands. Enough!
Yes, and way more than enough. This is not civilization, it is madness, utter madness, to allow mass murder to go on every damn day of the year and not do anything about it.
Gun control is not the magic answer to all this, which has complex roots - but it would certainly be a damn good start. Australia, NZ, the UK, and other countries have, after just one such massacre, enacted gun controls that have effectively stopped such mass murders (though not individual murders, of course).
I don't know how the lying, conniving Republican sons of bitches in Congress can sit on their hands and do nothing about it - when their own children and families are at as much risk as anyone else of being murdered at school, at church, in a grocery store, hospital, nursing home, and every other place that used to be safe. Bastards!
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