Watching People get shot up.

Starting to type this Kadizzle thought he would write about his friends being shot up.  By that Kadizzle means his older friends that are suffering from various health problems.  All of a sudden it hit Kadizzle that we are watching people literally getting shot up, school children.  First,  lets deal with older people getting shot up.  Ken and Rita had to leave suddenly because Rita is experiencing some health problems.  Two of our older good buddies are dealing with health crisis.  Health is a big part of getting old, and certainly not a pleasant part of it.  Friends are dealing with cancer,  implants, seeing problems,  and on it goes.  It always seems like we are old trees in the forest.  You see those old noble trees, and you see the limbs falling off, and the big hollow spots in the trunk.  It is just how nature works.

Now lets get to the real tragedy.  Nothing is as disturbing as having your child injured.  Imagine having your child shot by an NRA terrorist.  Many years ago our daughter was seriously injured in an accident.  Her kidney was split into three pieces and she was internally bleeding to death.  As the ambulance rushed Erin to Bismarck we followed in the car.  Somewhere between New Salem and Bismarck the ambulance pulled off the road shut off the emergency lights and stopped.   Terrorized we both thought perhaps Erin had died.  It was one of the most terrifying moments in our lives.  As it turned out the ambulance had to stop so they could take Erin's blood pressure.  It was so week they needed silence.  Losing a child to an accident is one thing.  Having NRA terrorist kill your child would be a tragedy of another magnitude.

So we have an organization in the United States that wants to help gun manufactures sell guns.  To sell the guns the NRA buys off congressmen.  The congressmen play to the gun insane to get elected. The price of this is a government that does not work, and far worse dead children.  Other countries have people that hunt, they have guns, and they have sensible gun laws.   Why do we pretend it is impossible to protect our children when every other modern country does?