After the last stuffed toy, and flowers, and balloons are placed, candles lit, vigils and grief stricken people and children leave the spot where another shooting has taken place when do we begin to ask who profits from all this?
In spite of evidence of out right corruption by gun and ammunition manufacturers and illegal sale of guns in open markets when do we condemn the protection afforded these purveyors of destruction by the NRA and our elected officials?
In spite of men and women and children acting as self-appointed vigilantes how do we not understand that we cannot have or maintain a free, equitable civil society in which to live without enforceable laws?
How do we succumb to tricky slogans, to scape goats or to our own fears by backing the NRA and electing the men and women who profit from the organization?
Our children, men and women, our streets, each of us need the lawful protection of accountable public servants like the police not profiteers like the NRA or the gun business and industry or feint-hearted representatives.
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