I felt ambivalent about going to the White House celebrate the Safer Communities Act. But I went to honor the parents of slain children, and to press for more action.
Thank you for this article. My husband and I grew up in Highland Park in the forties and fifties. For many years we have voted, written countless letters to politicians, and taken part in vigils and demonstrations to try to change the absurd and tragic ubiquity of guns of all kinds in our nation. With each of our approximately weekly mass shootings we have mourned and hoped for change. This time we saw blood flowing in the streets we walked on as children and were even more shocked and grief-stricken than usual. But still we hope to see change in our lifetimes, because with our Lord Jesus at God's right hand, nothing can kill hope.
Thank you for this article. My husband and I grew up in Highland Park in the forties and fifties. For many years we have voted, written countless letters to politicians, and taken part in vigils and demonstrations to try to change the absurd and tragic ubiquity of guns of all kinds in our nation. With each of our approximately weekly mass shootings we have mourned and hoped for change. This time we saw blood flowing in the streets we walked on as children and were even more shocked and grief-stricken than usual. But still we hope to see change in our lifetimes, because with our Lord Jesus at God's right hand, nothing can kill hope.
I am haunted by each mass shooting. Each one is an indictment on our country. May we all have the will to protect ourselves from gun violence.