I saw this book advertised on amazon. I've never read it, but it reflects the happenings of the past few days here in America. The shooting down of innocent people, and particularly innocent elementary school children in Newtown, Connecticut by a deranged young man is a reminder of how families dealing with the mental illness of one of their family members get no help in this society. No help. And it is a reminder of the gun violence that exists in this country. In fact 47% of all people in this country own a gun. The mother of the shooter owned the guns the shooter used in Newtown. The shooter seemed to me to come from "out of the shadows" of his mind to kill, including his mother and 20 innocent little children and 6 of their teachers. Everyday in this country children are lost to accidental as well as malicious death by guns. Do you care? What are you doing about it?
And I do remember the slaughter of innocent people and children by a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan through all of this. And I do remember the killings of children on the streets of Los Angeles and Chicago and Seattle...the list unfortunately, is fodder for America's endless nightmare.
http://www.people.com/people/static/h/package/tragedyconnecticutschoolshooting/index.html?ncid=webmail1#s1
"The second amendment wasn't meant to kill children."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jack-schimmelman/help_2_b_2315948.html
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