No more prayers, they ain’t working.

It is the best of times; it is the worst of times.  Sorry Dickens.

Thank you, Olympics, for showing us what humans can aspire to; we need this.

18 gun incidents already in 2018!  WTF!

This is not a racial, sexual, religious, income, or immigration problem, except that the shooter was a white American male.  This is a problem that needs some ‘grown-up’ laws applied to it.

First and foremost, who needs an automatic, assault type weapon?  The name says it all…assault.

I’m not totally anti-gun.  I come from a gun owning family.  My dad always took a gun with him into the woods in Northern Wisconsin for two reasons, there were black bears and two if he ran into a problem (broken leg/heart attack) he had someway of letting my mother know.

But the brother whose estate I worked on clearing out after his death…why did he have all those semi-automatic rifles and ammo?  He didn’t need them.  He went to a gun range to fire them for ‘fun’, but he didn’t need any of them for self-defense.  No one was likely to break into his Portland, OR home to steal anything, not in his neighborhood.  Okay, they might have to steal the guns.

And second, the ‘grown-up’ countries around the world?

Japan, there you might, MIGHT be killed, but they will be knife wielding and you cannot kill a lot of people in a short time if you have to slice them up.  It has happened, but mass deaths???? No.  Heck, as a single woman, I didn’t lock my door (MY HOUSE DOOR) the three years I lived in the Iwakuni area.   Obviously I NEEDED a gun….not.

Switzerland issues you a gun, to be part of the militia and you are expected to know how to use it and keep it secure.   Gun problems…no, it isn’t treated like a toy or a privilege, but a duty.

Germany, you may have a gun (not assault) after you register it and yourself, and take classes (education) in proper use and safety, oh and you have to have an approved, lockable gun case for it and use it.  It is a privilege, one they pay a lot to exercise.

So as Spidey would say, ‘with great power comes great responsibility.’  or another quote, ‘The truth?  You can’t handle the truth,’ America.

I wish it was only the Olympics to discuss.

No more prayers, they ain’t working.