thoughtsandprayers

A single failed 2001 shoe bombing attempt on an airliner bound for Detroit.

— We all now take our shoes off before boarding any airliner.

A single failed 2009 underwear bombing attempt on an airliner bound for Detroit.

— We all now have to go through full body scanners before boarding any airliner.

A plot to turn a lap top into a bomb was foiled.

— Laptops were banned on many airline flights.

A legal immigrant kills 8 and injures 12 in New York City.

— Close the borders to immigrants.  “Extreme vetting.”

A single terrorist shooter kills 59 and wounds 241 people in Las Vegas.

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A single terrorist shooter kills 26 and wounds 20 in Sutherland Springs Texas.

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— “It’s not a gun situation.”

378 mass shooting incidents (defined as four or more people shot) in 2017 alone.

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“Guns don’t kill people, people kill people.”

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In February 2017 the president signed a decree scrapping the regulation aimed at keeping guns out of the hands of severely mentally ill individuals.

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Gun homicide rates in the U.S. are 25 times higher than any other high income nation.

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Guns kill approximately 1300 children in the U.S. each year.

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The Congress refused to pass legislation preventing individuals on the terrorist no fly list from buying guns.

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It is not anti-gun to be for gun safety.  As the greatest nation on earth we should be able to figure out how to keep our Second Amendment right without giving up our right not to be randomly shot by a disgruntled idiot.  It is a national disgrace.  It most definitely is not “the cost of freedom.”

I don’t want to hear anymore “thoughtsandprayers.”