Robert Bowers, shot several times in Pittsburgh, is in fair condition in a hospital..
"Please know that justice in this case will be swift, and it will be severe," stated Scott Brady, the chief federal prosecutor in western Pennsylvania, characterizing the slaughter as a 'terrible and unspeakable act of hate."
This did not reassure Robert Bowers.
Why not?
Because he was the shooter.
Perhaps a vigilant sense of gun control legislation would have curtailed his freedom to purchase firearms, thus thwarting his aim to set out on a killing spree that ended eleven lives, horrifically.
In a peaceful house of worship.
In the past, mass murders were so few and far between as to sear the names of those cold blooded killers into our memories—names like Jack the Ripper, Son of Sam, Jeffrey Dahmer, Charles Manson—whereas today, the name of one mass murderer follows another as fast as an automatic rifle snuffs out human lives as though mowing us down matters as little as firing at a series of wooden ducks, lined up within the booth at a county fair.
Soon after Pittsburgh, young people, square dancing in California, lost their lives to yet another nameless hate mongerer, prodding me to state today’s viewpoint as clearly as possible while logic works to wrestle layers of tightly coiled frustration to the mat —
With freshly dug graves continuing to add to the number of grief struck mourners in city after city, time to legislate change for the better is SERIOUSLY long overdue.
The fact that our law makers continue to turn a blind eye to our nation’s dire need for gun control is truly ‘a terrible, unspeakable act of indifference' whether we describe cold blooded killers as weapon-waving maniacs or armed men who trampled my grandparents’ peace of mind during pogroms.
Though millions may pray—God help us—I hope and pray that newly elected law makers will open their eyes to need to work together, at long last, to protect their countrymen, women and children from gun slinging, hate obsessed attitudes unleashed during rallies led by a forked tongued, fire-spewing dragon who cares naught for anyone’s well being other than his own reflection of egocentric self-aggrandizement that stares back from his mirror—
Please God—let change for the better in The House signify the first step toward creating change for the better concerning removing easy access to gun ownership from hands that shake with murderous intent—
Our constitutional right to bear arms was meant for self protection not for arming lunatics, hell bent on next week’s killing spree ...
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