The Madness Continues...

And will continue until America faces up to its gun sickness.

The Madness Continues…

More gun deaths.

More grieving loved ones.

More funerals.

More thoughts and prayers.

More insanity.

The gun violence deaths have persisted unabated. Did you know the most recent day that did not contain a mass shooting in America was April 14, and that numerous days had more than one mass shooting?

The madness continues.

So do the excuses.

It’s mental illness.

It’s video games.

It’s violence in movies and television.

It’s a lack of God, morals, and decency.

It’s everything and everybody’s fault.

Except guns.

As a result of our bad example and their own rising gun violence, Canada is attempting to enact tougher handgun restrictions and a semi-automatic weapon buyback. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said:

“We need only look south of the border to know that if we do not take action, firmly and rapidly, it gets worse and worse and more difficult to counter.”

The pro-gun crowd will quickly argue that we shouldn’t care what Canada thinks about our gun laws.

We shouldn’t care because Canada cares.

We should care because we should love our children more.

We should care because we shouldn’t be desensitized by mass shootings unless they involve dozens of people, the young, or elderly.

We should care because we ought to have enough sense to admit what the problem is and do something about it.

But the NRA lines the pockets of our politicians.

The Second Amendment is the only constitutional law that matters.

America is free because of rugged individualism and the cowboy way.

The Wild West became the Tamer West when the law setup “deadlines” where people had to check their guns when they came into town.

Other countries have mental illness, video games, violence in movies and television, a lack of God, morals, and decency, and every other problem we have.

But at some point, they placed a higher value on the lives of their citizens than they did the right to own guns, especially guns that have no value for hunting and personal protection but are only meant to be used by the military and law enforcement.

In the Uvalde and Parkland shootings, it’s obvious that weapons like the AR-15 are enough to cause law enforcement to make deadly errors in judgment.

If the police don’t want to deal with active shooters with AR-15, why should they be sold to the public?

Why should they be legal?

Why should anyone who doesn’t wear a law enforcement or active military uniform be allowed to use them?

Until we find or manufacture courage, or it appears out of the ether,

The courage to outlaw assault weapons,

To strictly regulate the sale and traffic of semi-automatic weapons,

The madness will continue.

And the body count will continue to rise.