Tuesday, April 17, 2007
It has been a while, over a month in fact since my last post. No excuses, just not mush to say.
Until yesterday.
33 people killed, including the one that did the killing.
We lost around 3000 people on 9/11 (to an act I see more as mass murder than terrorism, but I don't want to get hung up on semantics), since then we've lost another 3300 in the ensuing occupation of Iraq. Let's say, roughly 6500 Americans as a result of the 9/11 tragedy.
During the same time frame, in this country, we have lost approximately 150,000 people to gun violence (according to statistics at the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control at the CDC).
I grew up in Louisiana, along the highways that wind through the state, every few miles or so you'll run across a slew of possums or armadillos that have been hit by cars. To this day I wonder as I pass them; how upon seeing one of their kind spread across the two lane blacktop, the subsequent critters don't get the idea that hanging about the highway is not the smartest thing to do.
The truth is, they are just too stupid to do anything different.
As a society, we are neither great, nor are we Christian, until we outlaw the weapons that are made expressly for killing people.
Peace,
REW
Until yesterday.
33 people killed, including the one that did the killing.
We lost around 3000 people on 9/11 (to an act I see more as mass murder than terrorism, but I don't want to get hung up on semantics), since then we've lost another 3300 in the ensuing occupation of Iraq. Let's say, roughly 6500 Americans as a result of the 9/11 tragedy.
During the same time frame, in this country, we have lost approximately 150,000 people to gun violence (according to statistics at the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control at the CDC).
I grew up in Louisiana, along the highways that wind through the state, every few miles or so you'll run across a slew of possums or armadillos that have been hit by cars. To this day I wonder as I pass them; how upon seeing one of their kind spread across the two lane blacktop, the subsequent critters don't get the idea that hanging about the highway is not the smartest thing to do.
The truth is, they are just too stupid to do anything different.
As a society, we are neither great, nor are we Christian, until we outlaw the weapons that are made expressly for killing people.
Peace,
REW
Labels: christian, guns, NRA, Virginia Tech
