What to say. There are no words. Until yesterday I hadn't realized there is a mass shooting every day in the U.S. So actions of the few speak for all of us as Americans. Do we not think it will happen to us? We should be forcing Congress to enact some limits on firearms, but though the majority of us agree something must be done to keep guns out of the hands of people suffering from mental illness and children and that assault rifles are not for hunting game, we do nothing. And people die. Every single day. Already we turn off on side streets to avoid drivers with road rage, we leave stores when people are shouting at each other, we pick up our kids early from school from a prick of fear. These gun owners have changed our lives.
I saw yesterday that in Norway almost 900 people had registered to hunt down 16 wolves, from an almost extinct population of 34 wolves. And that is just people who obeyed the rules. So there are dozens of people with heavy firepower bumping into each other to kill a beautiful animal that is being driven from all habits.
I'm beginning to feel that we in the U.S. are being driven away from our habitats and habits. Maybe we are such couch potatoes out of fear. "It's a jungle out there" has literally become true, with rage and hatred run rampant and the seeming only alternative is to turn up the firepower and blast each other to oblivion. What is this craziness? We can't run from it, we can't hide from it. It is time to insist on sanity in Congress and begin to stop letting the few terrorize the rest of us.
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