“Where have all the flowers gone?” American icon Pete Seeger sang. “When will we ever learn?”
This question stands. Our children, family, friends and neighbors die at the hands of angry, violent men (mostly) and boys shooting legal assault weapons at innocent, peaceful citizens trying to live freely. We increasingly use firearms to kill ourselves at vulnerable moments, too. Firearms are now the biggest culprit in the death of our children. We are exhausted, exasperated and outraged.
Keep hope, take action, we are also a rightful majority.
I’m 100% with author Stephen King, who said last week: “Stop electing apologists for murder.” I’m also with Pulitzer Prize winner Nicholas Kristof, who wrote: “Let’s try to bypass the culture wars and try a harm reduction model familiar from public health efforts to reduce deaths from other dangerous products such as cars and cigarettes.”
Teach peace at home and at school – let’s strongly work to raise more gentle men. Support litigation that holds manufacturers and marketers of defective battlefield products accountable for this reign of terror. If you “see something, say something.”
We must all channel our anger and heartfelt prayers into a sense of purpose.
Peter Scott
Yarmouth
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