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kwassa

(23,340 posts) Fri Jul 8, 2016, 09:41 PM Jul 2016

What a depressing week.

All the shootings, all the video, all the lives lost.

Guns, guns, and more guns.

I feel like no progress has been made in all the decades I've been alive, and I know it extends backwards for many generations before that. I expect more from the modern era, and I am not seeing it.

I wish I had something more insightful to say, but I don't. It is all just so sad.

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What a depressing week. (Original Post) kwassa Jul 2016 OP

It is sad. But the struggle goes on. leftofcool Jul 2016 #1

Republicans are saying we need to come together as a country. That is a huge applegrove Jul 2016 #2

Thank you for that positive note. nt babylonsister Jul 2016 #3

A sad K&R Night Watchman Jul 2016 #4

It happens again and again to me. rusty quoin Jul 2016 #5

Yes. The only thing sadder is that if the first two incidents had of happened years applegrove Jul 2016 #6

leftofcool

(19,460 posts)

1. It is sad. But the struggle goes on.

Reply to kwassa (Original post)

Fri Jul 8, 2016, 09:46 PM

Jul 2016

The best we can do is keep fighting for better gun control, more equality, better education for our kids etc.......

applegrove

(123,586 posts)

2. Republicans are saying we need to come together as a country. That is a huge

Reply to kwassa (Original post)

Fri Jul 8, 2016, 10:05 PM

Jul 2016

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change in tone after a mass shooting. I know it hurts but I think Obama has changed things in ways that will be paying off well into the future. Trump has helped too by lifting up 'the skirts' the GOP were hiding under for two generations and exposing their racism for what it is.

babylonsister

(171,675 posts)

3. Thank you for that positive note. nt

Reply to applegrove (Reply #2)

Fri Jul 8, 2016, 10:27 PM

Jul 2016

Night Watchman

(743 posts)

4. A sad K&R

Reply to kwassa (Original post)

Fri Jul 8, 2016, 11:05 PM

Jul 2016

rusty quoin

(6,133 posts)

5. It happens again and again to me.

Reply to kwassa (Original post)

Sat Jul 9, 2016, 12:21 AM

Jul 2016

I haven't given up yet. I know why, because I care, and I cannot predict anything, but only hope.

applegrove

(123,586 posts)

6. Yes. The only thing sadder is that if the first two incidents had of happened years

Reply to kwassa (Original post)

Sat Jul 9, 2016, 07:14 PM

Jul 2016

ago and not gone out to the public because the digital age did not yet exist, the horror would have been suffered by the families and their immediate community alone. I think it is much better now because something will be done about it. The cameras are a transfer of power. And it is for the good.

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