Hi John,
I don’t have the words to describe how I feel about the gun violence epidemic in this country. But I can’t stand silent either. So what do I say?
I’m grateful to another mother like me who wrote earlier this week about what so many of us feel and think about the Stonebriar Mall shooting, and so many others like it:
Just anger and fear and tears and choking at the back of your throat while you fold t-shirts from the Allen outlet mall, thinking about the false reports from Stonebriar, checking in with your teen who just got to a friend’s house from the movie theater at Stonebriar.
We’ve all experienced that anger and fear and tears, and mothers feel it every day. What we need now is change.
We shouldn’t live in a world where we have to wonder if the beautiful son or daughter we've raised from a baby will come home alive. We shouldn’t live in a world where an emotionally troubled 18-year-old can buy a military-grade weapon and walk into a church, or a school, or a Walmart, or a shopping mall to unleash a living nightmare.
We shouldn’t live in that world, but we do.
It’s time to change that.
|
|