Yes, I'm sick of awakening on beautiful sun-filled mornings and finding that yet more innocent people have been killed and injured because of guns, especially semi-automatic weapons. Can you imagine if you had let your child (middle/high school) off at the movie theatre in Aurora, CO to enjoy the big opening of the "summer blockbuster movie," the new Batman, and the next thing you received was a phone call from your child saying that a gunman was shooting at people? Or what about a call from the hospital? Or a visit from a policeman?
There is only one thing that guns cause, and that's blood. I'm sick of our American "gun culture" that originated hundreds of years ago and still plays out today. How can we have aggrandized our gun-toting westward expansion, when in fact it resulted in the deaths of many Native Americans. We were immigrants who wanted their land, and we were not going to negotiate with words when our guns spoke more loudly.
We still have some Annie Oakleys, but too many men are all caught up in the power and masculinity of guns. You know, the bigger, the better. They claim they have guns for hunting, so they can hang animals parts up in their homes. It's pathetic. And my bet is that the larger the gun, the smaller the...well, you know what I mean.
I'm sick of it. I'm sick of the NRA, and the control it has of our government. I'm sick of the concealed weapons that so many people are running around with. I'm sick of the children who are killed or kill because there are guns in their homes.
Our country was built through blood and wars, but let's put an end to it. NOW. (Not Owning Weapons.)
Love this! I, too, am sick of it, but apparently so many, too many people want to believe the hype which is the government is trying to take away gunowners' rights. Poo! Wonder how some of these same people might feel if their children or relatives were injured or killed/ We most definitely need to disarm the NRA!
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