It put the lovely Mrs.Gammons into a state of outraged pissed-offness. She sent me the following and asked that it be shared on Buster's. Her wish is my command. Her words:
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In 1999 when the Columbine shooting occurred, our only child, John, was 6. I remember saying to my husband that maybe we should teach John how to “hit the deck” in order to protect himself in case such an unthinkable thing should ever occur in his world.
We recognized the horror of that event, but shrugged it off as being rare and isolated.
Today, 2018, the frequency of gun violence not only in our schools but throughout our society, shows how low we've sunk -- as a people, we exhibit a total lack of decency and respect for our fellow human beings. Especially those who carry and use guns so shamefully.
Today I feel so sad and hopeless. Our spineless jerk off lawmakers do nothing about gun control. What good are they?
Some people make me feel sad, hopeless and angry too. You say it’s your “right” to own a firearm? Guess what? My right and the rights millions of Americans to live our lives without fear of getting shot outweighs your limited right to own a gun.
“But it’s so fun to go out and shoot my assault weapon”. Get another hobby. It's also fun to play putt-putt and get ice cream. Try that for awhile.
Gimme a break on the whole Second Amendment thing. It's a single sentence, added in 1789 just after the Revolutionary War, and it deals with the need for a "militia" to guard against additional aggression from Great Britain. (Back then, the brand-new USA did not have 50 states, let alone any sort of organized Armed Forces like we have today with a gazillion dollars behind them. We had "militias" -- volunteer farmers with muskets. Again, it was 1789. Do you know what year it is now? (Do the math, you gun toting geniuses.)
No one in 1789 could have foreseen today's lethal weapons, and if they could have, they wouldn't have thought everyone had a right to a machine gun. There is no reason why a well-to-do man in a safe community needs to have a firearm at all, let alone an assault weapon. Does it make you feel like you have a bigger dick or what?
You probably see in me as a snowflake, leftist, tree hugger, socialist, communist, bleeding heart liberal, etc., or even worse, a dreaded Democrat,. It might be true, and I really don’t care what you think. What I can see in those of you who support the NRA is a nonsensical belief in unfounded, trumped-up fear, and a lot of lingering racism. The NRA and its supporters are the biggest part of the gun problem in our country.
Me, I just think it’s important to make it less easy to kill one another, and I’m not even a Christian. So many guns makes it much easier than it ought to be. That's why the "mental health" excuse is such bullshit. We've always had a proportion of crazy people. What we haven't had is so goddam many guns.
The solution will certainly not be from folks who think like I do. (We don’t own guns, remember?) It will have to come from all you great gun-owning Americans who want to make America great again.
I think part of making America great again is finding a way to stop our children from getting slaughtered while they're in school. They're there to learn something, not to get gunned down.
I know most of you gun lovers think it’s just an unpreventable tragedy, these innocent kids getting killed. Well, it’s not just isolated Columbine anymore, it's no longer a rarity. How would the tragedy play out in your life if one of your innocent kids or grandkids became a shooter’s target? Would it still be "just one of those things"? Would you still defend the shooter’s right to bear arms? Sadly, I’m guessing a lot of you would. Pathetic.
This is America, with all it’s faults and warts and ugliness. And too many of you uninformed, willfully ignorant people still think guns are the answer? Guess you all don’t think enough of our children, and the future, to have the balls to try to protect them. Pathetic again.
P.S. If I've changed any opinions, please turn your firearms over to your local police department.
P.S.S. I know I've pissed off a lot of folks. I will not engage in any kind of debate. "Fuck off" is my rebuttal in advance.
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And further Mrs. Gammons sayeth not.
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