I am sure you realize that those and more were mass killings with firearms since I originally posted this idea.
You see, it is rather simple. We are NOT going to do a damn thing with laws or policy to speak to the problem of gun violence. The NRA owns too many Republicans in Congress and the rest are afraid of them. And we are going in the other direction regarding mental health.
The problem is NOT the Second Amendment or the vast vast majority of gun owners. The problem is the radical right wing of the NRA and their supporters who have hijacked the Amendment and the political movement around it and their refusal to enact any law - no matter how benign it is if touches upon firearms. They live permanently at the intersection of Slippery Slope Street and Paranoia Place and are holding the nation hostage tied to a cross right there at that intersection.
So lets just all stop the hypocrisy and the crying and the phony baloney hand writing and just admit it straight aloud - in a society such as ours where there are as many guns as people and we glorify gun culture and violence - there will be a price to pay for it. And the people who pay the price are the dead of in a small church in Texas and Sandy Hook and Vegas and Orlando and all the other such massacres that have happened here.
So lets admit these dead innocents at least paid the price so the rest of us can enjoy the perverted version of the Second Amendment that the NRA and the right wing have foisted upon the nation in the name of freedom and rights. Lets admit that others not only pay a price but they pay the ultimate price... they pay with their lives so that millions more than pretend that they can have any gun they want anywhere they want to use it and society be damned as their will and their desire and their need comes first above that of society.
So the least we can do is build a monument to them. That is what we do in this country to memorialize the innocent dead who paid a price that others did not. Wayne La Pierre did not pay the price. Charlton Heston did not pay the price. The delegates who hijacked the NRA at Cincinnati did not pay the price.
Dead innocents paid the price so its about time we honored them.
And maybe if the NRA has a giant wall in Washington with thousands of names on it , each a foot high, and each reminding us every day of the price these innocents paid, maybe after a year, or five or ten or even fifty, we will stop worshiping guns and the culture around them and we will take back the Second Amendment from the dangerous radicals who have hijacked it.
We can only hope.
Moved to a more appropriate location.
