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We Accept the Murder of Our Children
It’s time to honor the survivors as ‘Gold Star Families’ who have made the ultimate sacrifice
It is a national tragedy. The rights of gun owners are more important than the rights of our nation’s children and families. We suffer. We cry. We struggle to understand why but we do nothing to prevent it.
On this day, when many in the Christian world celebrate the resurrection of Christ, I ask, when will we resurrect our conscience?
When will the heartbreak, the sorrow, the shame, and the guilt so overwhelm us that we collectively wake up and say, “Goddamn it, enough!”
The gun people will make a thousand excuses why the daily slaughters have nothing to do with guns. Then, too many of our fellow citizens will silently agree: “Yeah, I mean, we can’t touch the 2nd Amendment. It was written by the Founding Fathers and it’s…um, well, it’s the Constitution. Can’t touch that.”
Oh, but we can. The Founding Fathers were sane. They were some of the sanest of their time and despite our penchant for judging people from different eras according to the morals of the present, the Founding Fathers were men of commonsense. They would never condone the existence of so many weapons in our lives. They would never have accepted the sale of…
