Saturday, October 3, 2015

How Can This Have Become "Routine"?...

Source: The Guardian - UK
(See the complete graphic at the first link below)


A truly shocking graphic.

And while some might consider this "sensationalism" or a cheap shot that targets gun owners, the NRA and big business... we need to come to understand why this is happening and what we need to do to cure the disease of gun violence that infects our country today. And we need to do it now.

Unfortunately, this HAS become routine. In fact not one person I spoke to today even mentioned the UCC shooting in conversation. And I probably talked to at least 50 to 75 different people today.

To me this is disappointing and disturbing. It is evidence that this kind of violence has not only become routine... but even worse... it has become "normal". Not even worth mentioning in conversation with our fiends and colleagues and certainly nothing our elected politicians want to take a potentially unpopular public stance on.

But we need to have the discussion. We need to have the debate. And they both need to start now! To refuse to talk about this... or ignore it hoping it will go away is to simply not even acknowledge there is a problem.  But we need to start taking real steps to eliminate this kind of senseless and irrational violence from our society.

Of course it will not be easy. Doing the right thing and making the tough choices never is. But we need to do it and we need to do it now. For ourselves, for our children and for all of those who have already died needlessly when all they were doing was trying to create a better future for themselves... in fact, for all of us.


See the complete graphic from the Guardian here;
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2015/oct/02/mass-shootings-america-gun-violence?CMP=fb_gu

And this is an interesting article about US public opinion concerning gun control:
http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2015/oct/02/mass-shootings-have-no-impact-on-support-for-gun-rights-in-the-us

UCC Campus 01.10.15
Photo - AP

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