buzzz worthy. . .
The
last thing Americans should have to do, over the holidays or any day,
is comfort the families of people killed by gun violence -- people who
woke up in the morning and bid their loved
ones goodbye with no idea it would be for the last time.
And yet, two days after Thanksgiving, that’s what we are forced to do again.
We
don’t yet know what this particular gunman’s so-called motive was for
shooting twelve people, or for terrorizing an entire community, when he
opened fire with an assault weapon and took
hostages at a Planned Parenthood center in Colorado. What we do know is
that he killed a cop in the line of duty, along with two of the
citizens that police officer was trying to protect. We know that law
enforcement saved lives, as so many of them do every
day, all across America. And we know that more Americans and their
families had fear forced upon them.
This
is not normal. We can’t let it become normal. If we truly care about
this -- if we’re going to offer up our thoughts and prayers again, for
God knows how many times, with a truly
clean conscience -- then we have to do something about the easy
accessibility of weapons of war on our streets to people who have no
business wielding them. Period. Enough is enough.
May
God bless Officer Garrett Swasey and the Americans he tried to save --
and may He grant the rest of us the courage to do the same thing.
President Barack Obama