Have you considered adding a bulletproof backpack for your children and grandchildren?
When my kids went to school, I packed their lunches and hoped they had whatever else they needed for the day: homework, musical instruments, gym clothes. Nevertheless, invariably I’d receive a phone call to deliver a forgotten item. Parents now can add a bulletproof insert to backpacks. There are other products too: bulletproof fleeces, binders, and briefcases.
Hey, this is America. There’s a market for everything.
This week marked one week since the church shooting in Texas that left 26 innocent people dead. Tomorrow marks one week since Election Day that put some Democrats in office dedicated to changing the lenient gun laws that have allowed killers to purchase weapons of mass destruction.
On my way to and from Connecticut to visit my parents, I pass the exit for Newtown, CT. I worked there as a reporter (LINK) and can’t help think about the murder of 26 people there, 20 first- graders among them. I can’t fathom the pain these families endure, only to have repeated efforts to curtail gun ownership repeatedly defeated. It’s like a constant slap in the face. Or more likely, it’s a daily raised middle finger, with the accompanying epithet; a reminder that their children’s lives don’t matter.
It’s gotten more wintery in the Northeast. We had a warm October, thank you climate change. On February 2nd, we’ll look for the groundhog, hoping for an early spring. Yet it’s been Groundhog Day in Congress for years. Connecticut Senator Christopher Murphy, https://www.murphy.senate.gov/ campaigning for gun control after the massacre in his state, said after the Las Vegas gun rampage that killed 58 people, “I wish it didn’t feel like Groundhog Day- but one day it won’t.”
Here’s hoping. Keep up the resistance. Or you may be buying weapons to put into backpacks next to the peanut butter sandwiches and gym clothes.
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Previously published on cyclingrandma
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