People gather outside the movie
theater in Colorado.
Last night when I posted my reflections on our Nation of Gun I never thought I would wake up to the horror story of mass killing in a Colorado movie theater. Following the story on and off today there were many stories about the victims, the brilliant college student who allegedly committed this tragedy and a deep expression of sympathy for the victims and families. Local officials said the killings were an ‘isolated’ action by an evil individual. Yet the police chief said the suspect purchased four guns, one a semi automatic gun, at local shops and more than 6,000 rounds of ammunition on the Internet in the past 60 days “All the ammunition he possessed, he possessed legally, all the weapons he possessed, he possessed legally, all the clips he possessed, he possessed legally,” said the police chief.
Both Presidential candidates express sorrow for the victims and families but I heard or read only one politician, Mayor Bloomberg of NYC asks the question: “what are they going to do about guns?” As with the tragedy of 9/11 or suicides in the military barely anyone wants to talk about the cause of this issue, the availability of hand guns that have only purpose to kill human beings.
I receive an email tonight from a local liberal anti gun organization asking me to join in “sending a heartfelt message to the families and survivors of this tragic shooting” but barely a mention of ‘epidemic’ of God violence and no mention of what we can do about it.
I wrote back to the group saying: “We are not going to get the politicians in Wisconsin or in the Federal Government to change gun laws any more than African Americans were going to get politicians and government to change civil rights laws without taking direct nonviolent action. So let’s do that instead of more talk and more money to lobby and talk.”
I doubt if I will hear back but if I do there will be excuses for not taking direct nonviolent action. We will be a Nation of Guns until we become a Nation of Resisters to gun and violence.
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