I wish these things would stop happening...

Nerdy Wonka @NerdyWonka

POTUS: "As a president, I have grieved with five American communities. Fort Hood, Tucson, Sandy Hook, Aurora, and now Washington D.C."11:26 AM - 22 Sep 2013

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Beautiful thread that honors those that died senselessly. Once again families and this nation weep at their loss.

much. With so many people feeling like us in the Nation.. We will have sensible gun laws.. one day. And, the sooner the better for our country's people!

Nerdy Wonka @NerdyWonka

PBO: It should be clear that change will not come from Washington; even when tragedy strikes Washington. It will come from the American ppl"11:37 AM - 22 Sep 2013

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Yet this should not be one of the hardest ones.

The second amendment has been "rewritten", if you will, to suit the needs of the NRA. A well regulated militia my ass. They are gun nuts pure and simple. I don't care if a person owns a rifle for hunting. The fire power that individuals are amassing is just plain nuts.

Cha

K&R

This is even more sad, as it could have been easily avoided. My heart is so heavy for all the victim's loved ones.




"WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Sunday memorialized the victims of the Washington Navy Yard shooting by calling for a transformation in the nation's gun laws to address an epidemic of gun violence, saying, "There's nothing inevitable about it."

Reprising his role of the nation's consoler in chief after yet another mass shooting, Obama said Americans should honor the victims of last Monday's shooting by insisting on a change in gun laws. "It ought to obsess us," Obama said.

"Sometimes I fear there is a creeping resignation that these tragedies are just somehow the way it is, that this is somehow the new normal. We cannot accept this," Obama said."


http://news.msn.com/us/obama-says-fight-for-gun-laws-ought-to-obsess-us

but what laws are we to push for? Common shotgun. Background check passed. I heard he attempted to purchase a pistol but current law prevented that as he was out of state. I guess you could prevent all sales to out of state residents.

there and if they could be related to gun purchases - he called the cops once saying people were following him. But the cops had no reason to arrest him for that and apparently no cause to follow up and make sure he sought mental health treatment.

It would create the kind of database that would make the emoprogs scream "totalitarianism."

sorry. But I won't get into a debate with you on gun laws. Not in a thread that is about the needless grieving of so many. It's not the appropriate place for it.

saying that, Isoldeblue~

for this article.

"Sometimes I fear there is a creeping resignation that these tragedies are just somehow the way it is, that this is somehow the new normal. We cannot accept this," Obama said."


The President has been to so many Memorials for victims of senseless gun violence.

Nerdy Wonka @NerdyWonka

POTUS: "As a president, I have grieved with five American communities. Fort Hood, Tucson, Sandy Hook, Aurora, and now Washington D.C."11:26 AM - 22 Sep 2013

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Fort Hood



Tuscon



Sandy Hook



Aurora



Washington



and so many more.

tears, Cha

Thank you for posting these pics of all the ways we mourn and honor our loved ones who are just gone.. from senseless gun violence.

And, this reminds me of those in Boston, too.. more unfathomable violence that left so much sadness in its wake.


People gather with candles during a vigil for eight-year-old Martin Richard at Garvey Park in


People light candles at Olympic Forest Park in Beijing, China, on Tuesday. One of the three victims(Lingzi Lu) killed in the marathon explosion was a Chinese woman studying in Boston


A message written on a banner seen during a vigil on the Boston Common on Tuesday afternoon

http://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2013/apr/17/boston-mourns-bombing-vigils-pictures#/?picture=407383169&index=0

Krystle Campbell29Arlington
Martin William Richard8Dorchester
Lingzi Lu23China
Sean Collier26Wilmington



http://photoblog.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/16/17784170-honoring-bombing-victims-the-day-after-boston-marathon?lite

BOG

That made me cry, thank you for that tribute to Boston. It is needed right now. The trial starts in four days. It's going to be hard. We are going to be reliving it.

Boston Strong, Thanks Cha.

BOG

trial was going to happen. That will be so heartbreaking for you all.. especially in Boston and surrounding areas, she..

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I don't know if I will be able to handle some of the reaction at DU. There was a lot of shit tossed our way.
It's about to start again.

Dear Boston~

I posted it again. it works for me, yet that doesn't mean that it will work for you.

Hope this works Cha~

of our President and First Lady from today..



http://theobamadiary.com/2013/09/22/ill-be-there/

...wanted stricter gun laws - and STILL DID NOT GET stricter gun laws, then I'm sorry but . . .



It's evident given this situation that change MUST come from CONGRESS and that change will ONLY come when the NRA is decoupled from that governing body - no influence. No money. No lobbying. Nothing. THAT is where the change has to happen. The NRA must be made impotent to be able to foist its minority agenda upon the majority of Americans, when the majority of Americans want something completely different.

THAT. IS. NOT. DEMOCRACY.

THAT. IS. NOT. REPRESENTATIVE. GOVERNMENT.

We can’t accept this. As Americans bound in grief and love, we must insist here today there’s nothing normal about innocent men and women being gunned down where they work. There’s nothing normal about our children being gunned down in our classrooms. There’s nothing normal about children dying in our streets from stray bullets.

http://bobcesca.thedailybanter.com/blog-archives/2013/09/the-grief-counselor-in-chief.html

Cha~

perfectly what so many of us are feeling.

she

Cha...........