Casual?

There is an irony in describing

someone shot

as a 'casualty'.

There is nothing 'casual' in the act

of bringing a gun into a school,

loading it

and then

hunting down children and

shooting them until they die.

It is a deliberate act.

A knowing plan.

A hateful and hurtful decision and utter

disregard for life.

There is no casual in casualties.

Simply a reporter

that balks and shies away from

naming the truth.

When the Governor doesn't call

for gun safety but instead

asks us to pray: what the

Hell do you think we've BEEN doing

while our children are slain?

When school isn't a safe place and

we panic along with our children

at a balloon pop in Disney

because they've been

trained on active shooter drills?

Why?

Why do we understand and sympathize when

there is 'active panic' when a 'false shooter rumor' occurs

but 'thoughts and prayers' when our

children and slain in their classrooms?

There is no time left to be casual

about casualties.

So stop saying it that way.

Stop clicking past the sad parents

from Sandy Hook when their messages

interrupt your viewing of the

latest Golden Buzzer clip on Facebook.

Don't look away from their pain.

Don't take it casually.

Stand up for them: our dead children.

Vote.

Educate.

Secure the guns.

What about the 'dignity' and 'rights' of our children

to go to school

and come home alive

instead of being shot dead at school?

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Red Flag Laws

(Extreme Risk Laws)

Know them. Vote.

You can pray while you do that.

OK?

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I am heartsick.