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Showing Original Post only (View all)On this horrific anniversary let us speak out against the horrors the NRA agenda has brought us [View all]
It has been one year since Sandy Hook and a lot has happened in that year. Day after day, week after week we all read stories right here on DU about countless tragedies involving guns.
We read about the grave injustice that was commited against Trayvon Martin.
We read about children accidently shooting themselves with their father's gun.
We read about the gun nuts who open carried their weapons around our schools and terrified their communities.
We read about gun nuts threatening to take up arms against our nation because of their warped perception of "tyranny".
We read about the toxic influence the NRA has on our political system.
We learned a lot in the last year from many of the hundreds of posts that have been made on this site about the topic of guns, many of the things we learned are things that certain people would prefer that we did not know about because the facts don't reflect well on their position.
The reality is however that if we want to prevent more Newtowns from happening we need to be able to discuss the reality of guns in our society because this a real issue that effects a lot of people. Sometimes the discussions can get heated no doubt and sometimes people on both sides including myself could do a better job of keeping it civil, but healthy debate is needed if we are ever to move forward as a nation on this issue.
Thank you to everyone who is speaking out on this horrific anniversary, change is slow to come but if enough people speak out we can reduce the influence of the NRA Nutcases.