I have a question about life [View all]

[Pretzel_Warrior]

Have you faced the death of a very close family member that destroyed your entire world for a time?

My mother died in 2011 at 62, and my twin sister in 2012. They both died of cancer, and I was devastated. I am only 43. My sister spent her adult life coping with bipolar disorder.

When I think about their lives being tragically cut short due to such a loathesome illness like cancer, I feel extremely sad. But I know I had the mixed blessing of advance notice and was able to visit with them and say goodbye. Both left a legacy with their own children and the lives they touched.

When I think about little 6 year olds being gunned down in their school room and their 20 something teachers along with them, it makes me so white hot angry at ANYONE WHO DARES TO STAND IN THE WAY OF SOLUTIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes, I get mental illness. Put it at the top of the priority list to deal with. In doing so, we would also help the drug dependency problem and homelessness problem in a very big way.

Yes, I get the notion of increasing sensible measures of security in schools. I don't like it, but it is in keeping with the times.

BUt when some person loves their guns so much that they are unwilling to think of some limits that should be placed on them to reduce the kind of gratuitous violence and pointless deaths of last Friday, I have serious problems with them. I am still raw with the depression and grief of losing two very close women in my life, so I can somewhat identify with the black hole parents of these murdered children are staring into now. They have a hard road ahead of them.

WE NEED TO STAND UP TO NRA, and Gun Owners of America and all the other transparent fronts for gun companies to sell more weapons. More instruments of death. More takers of life. Let us not be the casual by standers who rubber neck as we make our way past someone else's tragedy and then go on with our day.

I will not turn my attention from this whether we have other important topics to focus on or not. WE MUST FIGHT. Scare the fucking shit out of your congress people. Let them know you Are the ANTI-NRA and you vote.

*Let me add a post script. After my mother died and before my sister died, my wife became pregnant, and I am now the proud father of a 9 month old son. He was a blessing beyond belief, and we both stare in wonder at this young life in amazement every day. I cannot imagine how any parent would feel if they spent years loving and raising a child, celebrating birthdays, saving for college, and the whole process of extending life by another generation only to see that most precious person of your life--that extension of you--cut down in a hail of bullets.