Today the spirit of the nonviolent worm, this site, took a serious blow when the activist US Supreme Count reinterpreted the second amendment to say individuals, not just militias as stated in the amendment, have the right to bear arms. In striking down the long established city statute of Washington D.C. about handguns, the Supreme Court struck a blow to all peacemakers. As many Police Chiefs and Mayors said today this new interpretation of the constitution will endanger lives and increase senseless homicides. Most guns in the home are not used for protection but for acts of domestic violence, to settle arguments, for crime and for suicide. The USA is already a world leader in gun violence.

On the Growing Power tour the other day Will Allen pointed out how there are hundreds of species of worms, seven alone at Growing Power, and how all the various worms, unlike human beings, work together. Even in my worm compost I find big night crawlers living side by side with little red worms. Worms do not eat or harm anyone. Heat and dryness can kill worms but worms, unlike humans, do not kill each other. Thus worms do not need guns or any other weapons to destroy each other.

Some would say worms are weak. However, in the evolutionary history of the world worms have outlived many creatures, including the dinosaurs. In nature survival goes to creatures that can adapt not those with force. If only we humans, especially Americans, could learn from worms. Worms are nonviolent and do not need guns.

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