Back Story Newsletter
Good morning,
Texas Shooting
They are killing your children America.
Overnight another crazed 18 yr old took two assault rifles easily bought in his local store, into a school in Texas, and started shooting children. Children!
19 kids in the Robb Elementary school were among those who huddled under desks, terrified as the shots rang out and echoed down hallways. I can’t imagine the screams and cries from children, scrambling in a living nightmare to find some shelter from bullets and blood.
19 kids who didn’t make it out alive, along with 2 adults.
It’s the 30th shooting at a Kindergarten to 12 school this year in the U.S.
Why can a mentally unstable person buy a gun? And kill children in America?
Gun sales have skyrocketed in Covid lockdowns while mental health has plummeted.
There has been over 200 mass shootings (where more than 4 people are killed) this year.
Universal background checks? The gun lobby opposes it.
Now is the time to reform gun laws. It’s beyond lunacy in the U.S. The price paid for inaction is sickening.
On Back Story last week I interview Soufan think tank terror expert Colin Clarke. Just listen to this 2 minute clip on the conversation that followed the Buffalo mass shooting. Some of the circumstances were different. A lot were tearfully the same.
“Politicians will offer thoughts and prayers, rinse and repeat” “Were sick Dana, were a sick people and this is the outcome”.
The full interview with Colin is here on the podcast;
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1016881/10650849
My thoughts and prayers to those children and their families. What an incalculable loss. My heart hurts for them. But once and for all America protect your kids. Ban these damn weapons. Institute mental health checks for buyers of guns.
Up until now the argument to ban weapons is lost on Americans who see it as a constitutional argument. If guns made America safe, it would be the safest society on earth which its the opposite of.
There are 300 million guns in the U.S. Some say it’s 400 million.
What can be done? The debate includes sensible controls.
-back ground check on gun buyers
-ban under 21’s from buying guns
-protection orders (Men who have a history of domestic assault cannot buy a gun)
-safe storage with trigger locks in homes with weapons
-end immunity for gun manufacturers
-ban bump stocks which imitate automatic weapons
-research smart guns which only unlock with a pin or fingerprint
Is there something positive to report? Yes when you look at polling numbers, even gun owners support background checks and restrictions on who can purchase these weapons.
Try to have a good day everyone.
Dana Lewis