Targeting

Our country is proud of its uncivilized habits. We pride ourselves on being rough, tough, shoot em up people who can run rough shod over everyone and everything. Look at who we elected president.

The rewards are great. The NRA funnels millions of dollars into people who perpetuate the idea that there is something innate and wonderful and historically necessary in owning guns.

At best a hobby that enjoys shooting at targets, at worst, a hobby that enjoys killing animals and maybe even people, especially if they are one of the racially profiled "undesirables" our white nationalists and president don't like. At the very worst people who could care less about other people's kids and who are willing to play Russian roulette with their own.

No amount of special preparation in schools is any guarantee, is really fail safe, if your child is one of those in the hallway when a shooter enters.

No amount of counseling is a guarantee because the people who need counseling are often the people already neglected and unnoticed.

Even guns in the hands of trained policemen are a danger to innocent law abiding citizens. Those same guns in the hands of mentally ill, or emotionally charged people are even more dangerous.

We do NOT NEED guns in this country. If you believe we do then you are putting the lives of all children and all people at risk. Your priorities are skewed. You have become the problem.

Imagine any child you love in front of a gun -- just hoping the bullets miss him or her.

How can anyone think this is normal, or okay?