#gun sense
Parkland Shooting
Trump, The GOP, and the NRA ARE COMPLICIT with these mass shootings. They want a suicide pact with the 2nd amendment. 18 school shootings in 2018 AND ITS FEBRUARY!!….
Shocking numbers from Yale School of Medicine: http://medicine.yale.edu/news/article.aspx?id=6625
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It’s true: we can have the Second Amendment AND common sense gun laws that save lives. Everyone wins! (Unless you’re the gun lobby.)
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The daughter of slain Sandy Hook Elementary School Principal Dawn Hochsprung, Erica Lafferty, recalls her last day with her mother:
It was a cold Sunday afternoon at the lake house and Chris and I were packing up to go home. Like she did every weekend when we left, Mom followed us outside to say goodbye. Before I hopped into the truck she gave me one of her famous Dawn hugs and a big Mommy kiss.
As I was closing the door I looked at her and told her I love her for the very last time. She took about four steps from the truck and spun around on her tippy toes, opened the truck door and whispered something that I cannot repeat (as to not ruin the oh-so-proper reputation of Dawn Alyson) and laughed her beautiful Dawn laugh… she said “I love you baby” and closed the door.
As we backed down the driveway she stood at the top waving until the truck was out of view. I had no idea that this was going to be the last time that I saw my beautiful Mommy, my best friend in the entire world…
Read Erica Lafferty’s full story here.
Toddler unintentionally shoots, kills Oklahoma basketball player
“Family members at this residence, they were sighting-in a rifle and while they were sighting-in the rifle they were taking a look at the targets. When one of the children that were in that family came up and actually grabbed that rifle being held by one of the adults, and one of the children actually pulled that trigger that resulted in the death of Eric Brown,”
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John Lennon was assassinated 34 years ago today. Over one million Americans have been shot and killed since then.
Imagine a world without gun violence…
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Guns are fun and make people feel cool.
The gun lobby makes a crazy amount of money off making and selling guns.
The politicians get enough of that money to turn the other cheek.
Mental illness is an issue everywhere that can affect anyone.
It’s all very, very simple.
If you’re not American and you’d like to be part of our solution, please, we welcome you with open arms. Help us. We are living in an actual nightmare. We are scared, and constantly mourning. We welcome your camaraderie and your voices.
If you’re here to give us your sanctimonious take on how you just can’t possibly understand how Americans could blah blah blah, please, sit it out. It’s all very simple. You have the privilege of being born in a country where this issue was never allowed to spiral out of control. There are no inherent differences between us. “In Australia we just can’t understand…” ok first of all in Australia you literally have concentration camps. And I am confident that you speak out about and against that!!!! I am. “Well in Canada” you have a deep and quite recent history of slaughtering indigenous school children. And I know you mourn that! I know you do. I know you are 100% dedicated to righting those wrongs. “In Germany we just don’t…” oh brother I am not touching that with a ten foot pole y’all.
Americans are not an alien species with inherently different problems caused by who we are fundamentally as people. We are a different country struggling with a different issue and living in a nightmare of political making. If you can’t be part of our solution, please, just focus on your own problems.
Every time, with the self righteous pile on. We get it. You “just don’t get it.” Given how simple it all is, that’s on you. Keep it to yourselves, please. It’s not appropriate today.
Amy is voting for common-sense gun legislation. What is motivating you to head to the polls this November?
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