I apologize. I barely blinked when I heard about what happened in El Paso, Texas on Saturday. I barely flinched to wake up Sunday and find out it had happened again in Ohio over night. I have become desensitized. Desensitized to mass murder occurring in the schools, churches, clinics and public streets of the places I live.
Not because it hasn’t happened to me, not because I haven’t been affected, not because I’m not afraid. I live in Colorado. I knew a teacher at Columbine — had just seen her a few weeks before the massacre, and my parents lived only a few miles from that school. A friend of my daughter was killed by a shooter on the streets of Colorado Springs on Halloween day in 2015. A friend of my son was murdered by Robert Dear in the Planned Parenthood shooting the next year, when the entire city was terrorized for an entire day. My teenage nephews lived in Aurora and went to the movies often when that little shooting occurred. We worried for hours.
I am not immune. Only desensitized.
Because I have been observing what happens every time one of these things happens. We all have.
Tots and Pears.
This isn’t the time…
Don’t politicize people’s pain.
Folks run out and buy MORE guns, cuz ,you know...they’re gonna come for them now.
Titter-tatter. Pitter-patter.
Nothing changes when nothing changes.
But something has changed. Now instead of this:
We have this:
Three months before one of the deadliest public mass shootings in U.S. history, allegedly driven in part by white nationalism, President Trump asked a Florida audience how to stop migrants from crossing into the United States.
“How do you stop these people? You can’t, there’s —” Trump said, cutting himself off as a rally attendee yelled back, “Shoot them.”
Trump paused and smirked, before responding, “That’s only in the Panhandle can you get away with that statement.” The crowd cheered for nearly 10 seconds before Trump continued.
www.washingtonpost.com/...
Seeds grow when watered.
Our present resident is sowing seeds of hate and violence.
Everyone will pay in blood. All of us. Again and again.
Get used to it.
Or get them all out.
Vote blue. No matter who.
(But check their gun record.)