The "Let's all open carry those guns" debacle

"I had a gun", said Shia LaBeouf, after examining his life and deciding that it was no longer worth living. You may remember him from movies like Transformer, Eagle Eye, and Holes, among a whole host of other cinema. While preparing for his new role portraying Italian priest Francesco Forgione, known as Padre Pio, LaBeouf had an epiphany, take his life or become a better person.

The goodness and kind deeds of Padre Pio shone a much needed light on the life of this young man.

The priest, born in 1887 to peasants, started his good deeds at an early age. He sought out and lived a life of extreme poverty, strictness and simplicity, mostly while ill at times, but still dedicating his life to the upliftment of others.

In comparing his troubled life to such a revered man, and feeling humbled in the face of his undeserved fate of temporarily becoming the great light of someone who shone so very brightly, he was brought to his knees.

In becoming this man, Labeouf's life was saved.

If the life of, or decisions of one person can so greatly affect the outcome of another life, how then can the decision makers of a nation of people decide to hand weapons of destruction into the hands of the very young of our society. A society already reeling from disaster after disaster of unhappy people deciding to take the lives of innocent children in order to sate their bitterness and hatred for a world that they think has forgotten about, or does not care about them.

Are we all at fault for dropping the baton on caring and loving our fellow inhabitants of mother earth.

A federal judge in Texas has thrown out the state's ban on young people 18 to 20 years old open carrying guns, literally overruling a supreme court decision to the contrary.

Granted, there was no ban on anyone for buying long guns. Those everyone are perfectly free to tote around, irrespective of age.

Gun manufacturers and their sponsors must be some of the happiest business owners in the nation. They are profiting from the commotion and general loss of lives which does not seem to matter a great deal to the lawmakers.

I then ask you. Where are the Padre Pio's of today.

Who will be the voice and face of the saint who will be the savior of a modern people. Who is standing up for the innocent blood that has been shed, and pray not that more be shed.

What can we the people do? Are our hands tied? Are we helpless in the face of selfishness and greed of the powerful who dictate the rules and laws that we live by.

What can we do?

On the other side of the spectrum, women's lives are at risk by the similar upending of laws without deep thoughts as to the outcome of changing laws on the actual life and well being of specific groups of people.

Eleanor Klibanoff, The Texas Tribune writes -

"Performing an abortion is now a felony punishable by up to life in prison in Texas after the state's trigger law, which has only narrow exceptions to save the life of a pregnant patient, went into effect Thursday.

Police form a line to prevent protesters from walking down Third Street at a rally for abortion rights in Austin, Texas.

The law was "triggered" when the U.S. Supreme Court issued its judgment in Dobbs vs. Jackson, the case that overturned Roe vs. Wade and allowed states to set their own laws about abortion".

There is a $100, 000.00 fine to be imposed on Texans flouting this law.

The people causing all this stir all seem immune to real life situations and tragedies. Protesting does not seem to help the situation, it only appears to exacerbate the already troubling angst brewing upon the winds.

We need the winds of change. Not more of the same.

A people united together in mind and spirit can move mountains.

Let us all join hands across a nation to move those mountains so the happy can once again return to a people with hands uplifted in joy.

This is my petition for peace.

Power to the people!

Solidarity is key.

N.A.