I don’t think so. I hope not.
This business in Connecticut has me all bollixed up. I don’t have children (a combination of
inability to carry and a very quiet biological clock). To be honest, most of the time I don’t even like small children (I don’t steal
their candy or tell them the Easter bunny is a big fat lie or anything like
that) I just don’t have a lot of
experience being around them for extended periods of time.
But I have a younger
brother. He’s going to be 50 (gah…it
pains me to write that) in March. When I
heard about this horror in Connecticut yesterday, I immediately thought of him
and this favorite photograph of the two of us:
I don’t know how old we were
when it was taken, but we’re obviously very young. The cabin in the background is where my
grandfather and great grandfather were born and we were visiting there with
my dad and grandfather. We must have
gotten distracted and wandered off; someone took this photo of us picking
cotton. I love it ~ it shows two children simply being children
and enjoying the sun and family and just being alive…something those sweet
little ones in Newtown will never be able to do.
Most people who know me think
I’m a tie dye
wearing, bleeding heart liberal, but I like to think of myself as a “nice”~ican
or a “kind”~ocrat. I hate knee jerkism
on both sides of the aisle. I think that people who need it should have
assistance, but it shouldn’t be permanent enough to become a generational
source of income. I think people with
eleventy billion dollars in assets should probably kick in more in taxes, but
more importantly should strive to do good things with those blessings in their
bank accounts. I don’t think kindness
and generosity and empathy and love and morality can be legislated.
I don’t have any answers. I don’t think now, when the details of this
monstrous event are changing by the minute, is the right time to start
debates. I guess the one stand I will
take is that I don’t understand why anyone (military personnel, law
enforcement, etc. excluded) needs assault weaponry.
If Nick Lowe hadn’t already
written this, he would have surely written it yesterday:
"What's So Funny 'Bout Peace, Love and Understanding?"
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