WHAT HAVE WE TO SAY?

Since that horrific day in Arizona on January 8th, it has shaken up America to such a point, that I wonder if we will ever recover. Gabrielle Giffords, a congresswoman from Tucson gives her time and service to this country, and we shoot her! Is it her politics, her religion, or the fact that she is a woman? None of those seem like an excuse to me. This is the work of a mad man. This is also the work of a powerful gun lobby, one that looks to make money, and cares very little for the ‘Right to bare arms.’


But there are more victims than we care to discuss. Those who died, and those that were wounded, but also, those who are left behind, and those who will be damned for what happened, have now become victims.

Who am I talking about? I’m talking about that little 9-year old girl that was killed. Christina Taylor Green, an aspiring politician, a child that held the view that public service was worthwhile, murdered by a madman. We are appalled, yet the media seems to have all but forgotten her, and her parents. I know that the parents don’t wish to be singled out now, in their time of deep and sustained grief, but there lies the fact that they were robbed of their child, they were robbed of the joy, love and hopes of that precious child. Will the world soon care or remember?



And there is the madman himself, Jared Lee Loughner, the person who pulled the trigger, who may have if she doesn’t die, Gabrielle Giffords may be unable to function ever again like she once did. Her husband, Mark Kelly will be denied the love and affections of the woman he married: and now waits and wonders, if his wife WILL ever be the same. This Jared is the child of someone too. What has he done to them? What unimaginable torture, shame and grief, not to mention guilt will these people suffer? All in the name of some political idealism, we go to violence, and the quickest means to silence our enemies, the gun, rather than the ballot. Didn’t we learn from Lee Harvey Oswald, didn’t Surhan Surhan teach us anything? Is not James Earl Ray still burning in our minds?

Tell me why a handgun is sold. Is it an object that makes life better? Do these high-powered rifles that I have a right to carry doing good for the sick and elderly, the poor and hopeless? Have we lost our minds?

So once again, we keep from banning guns, and so once again we destroy the values of democracy, human decency and embrace the stupidity and insanity of guns and naked violence. And those who blame the different political parties out there and make it political hay, shame on you, have you no respect for the process, for the little girl, for the parents?