Any Gun to Anyone, But We Will Never Give Up
Columbine. Aurora. Newtown. Virginia Tech, We can whisper a litany of locations like a prayer, and without saying anything more than the names of these places, heads will bow and people understand how they are connected. Gabby Giffords greeting voters in an Arizona supermarket parking lot. Patients waiting in a Ft. Hood doctor’s office. Folks standing in a movie to see Batman in Colorado. We don’t need to say anything more.
The disconnected becomes tragically connected as one after another we have seen a gruesome and growing play-stop-rewind-repeat-play thriller where easily-obtained, rapid-fire, high-capacity guns connect to the hands of dangerous people whose motive is to kill as many innocent bystanders as possible before dying themselves.
A friend who knew how passionate I was about doing something about senseless, insane gun violence casually said to me, “Well, you gave it a shot (not sure if the pun was intended)
