Tag: gun violence
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The Lord Our Gun
America, just had its 114th mass shooting of the year, yesterday. This time it was eight kids, I will say that again, eight kids, shot down and massacred in Shreveport, Louisiana The shooter was father of seven of the kids. The eighth was a cousin of the seven kids shot down. After a car chase,…
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F Thoughts And Prayers
Picture this if you can. You are a parent. You’re sending your kids off to school the first week of school. The kids are anywhere from 6 to 15 years old. They are going to church service in the morning to celebrate the first week of school. What an idyllic way to start the school…
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In Denial
There is this movie, back in 1975, where this disillusioned anchorman, played by Peter Finch, fed up with life and world events, shouts out, “I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore!” I think there is a growing segment of the population that is fed up with the denialism of…
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It Is Too Late
Source CNN Website – Family Photo The following are excerpts from Texas legislation on guns. As of 2021, people who qualify under the law can carry a handgun in a public place in Texas without a license to carry (LTC). Texas law does not specifically put restrictions on who can carry a long gun such…
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Sounds of Silence
The ‘Sounds of Silence’, sung by Simon and Garfunkel, was released in 1964, remixed and released again in 1965 and became a number 1 hit in 1966. This song has been around for nearly 60 years. Wow. A paradox but there has been a deafening silence in Republican ranks the last little while. Ever since,…