Another shooting

I check the headline for where it is and then the article to see if anyone I know could be involved. They aren't, so I continue on to other news.

That is what these mass shootings have become to even me. I'm as anti-gun as they get. I would be happy if we no longer had guns in the US. I would settle for only having rifles, one shot, the same way that we had when the amendment was written.

And it makes me so angry. So so angry. People died and we don't care. People died and they are simply one more mark in the tally. We are desensitized to gun violence. Even people like me, who care so deeply about the people who died. But I can't. Because yesterday it was Kansas. Today it will be somewhere else. Tomorrow, yet another place.

We are the "greatest nation in the world" and yet, daily, people die and people fight harder for their own right to own a gun. They use these deaths as a rallying cry to get more people out there with guns. And maybe having more guns is the answer if you are a white male adult. But how many kids died from playing with the deadliest weapon allowable by the government? And how many people take those guns and turn a mistake or an argument into murder and death?

A woman who owns a gun for protection is 4-5 times more likely to die from that gun than a woman who doesn't have a gun. This is what it boils down to. Easily accessible guns equal easily accessible guns to men and women and children who are angry or sad or humiliated.

Just one day, I'd like for the gun nuts to have a conservation that doesn't refer to the 2nd amendment. Because guess what? My right to life are guaranteed, and not by an amendment, but by the document proper. And more importantly, by the Declaration of Independence. My right to life is guaranteed by the very charter of this country.