A truthful, brave and painful commentary on this state and the lingering old south mentality. It's ingrained in these native southerners, passed down thru the generations. Thanks for your beautifully written piece, as hard as it is to read.
So sad you had to express similar thoughts again. It is my understanding that Speaker Sexton wouldn’t recognize the Dem Reps and that Rep Johnson had one vote save her before Rep Pearson was expelled. Sad day for TN as we all grieve.
Thank you, Mark. I think we are finally beginning to see the backlash from regular citizens, Democrats, Republicans and Independents. It feels like we are moving back into The Dark Ages, but the majority of Americans do not want to go back. They are standing up. They are speaking out, particularly the young people and women. They are voting. I think change is coming and it will be forward not backward. Thanks, as always, for your inspiring essays.
This was an extremely well written essay. Thank you so much. My children are grown. They were very young when Columbine happened, and at that time, I was busy sipping the ‘Conspiracy Koolade’ being by poured by Rush Limbaugh and G. Gordon Liddy.
I am living proof that you can recover from the ‘Cult of the Conspiracy’ that some people are gullible enough to join.
I believed in my Second Amendment right. I also believe that, like all rights, it comes with a LARGE measure of personal responsibility. I am responsible for what is done with my firearms if I am not around. I am responsible for where rounds go when I fire them. I am responsible to have someone I trust hold my weapons for me if I become somehow too unstable to be responsible for them. I am responsible to report them stolen IMMEDIATELY, if they are stolen. I am responsible to make sure my children 1) understand the first rule of firearm safety (every gun is loaded, even if someone tells you it isn’t), and 2) to make sure that they cannot get ahold of my firearms when I am not around.
Contrary to the far Right’s belief, there ARE people who have no business having access to firearms. And, while it’s true that if someone really wants one, they aren’t that hard to get, it doesn’t mean we have to go out of the way to make it easy. There are loopholes in the background check process that need to be closed. And we could do that. But, those who wish to maintain the status quo, and who see those dead children as ‘collateral damage’ and/or ‘the weak’ (as in, only the strong survive) will eventually die trying to make sure those changes never come. I fear I will be long dead myself before the status quo expels its last, agonal breath.
A truthful, brave and painful commentary on this state and the lingering old south mentality. It's ingrained in these native southerners, passed down thru the generations. Thanks for your beautifully written piece, as hard as it is to read.
So sad you had to express similar thoughts again. It is my understanding that Speaker Sexton wouldn’t recognize the Dem Reps and that Rep Johnson had one vote save her before Rep Pearson was expelled. Sad day for TN as we all grieve.
Thank you for the calming thoughts. I feel so frustrated with politics that I find myself ranting or shutting down. This helps
Thank you, Mark. I think we are finally beginning to see the backlash from regular citizens, Democrats, Republicans and Independents. It feels like we are moving back into The Dark Ages, but the majority of Americans do not want to go back. They are standing up. They are speaking out, particularly the young people and women. They are voting. I think change is coming and it will be forward not backward. Thanks, as always, for your inspiring essays.
This was an extremely well written essay. Thank you so much. My children are grown. They were very young when Columbine happened, and at that time, I was busy sipping the ‘Conspiracy Koolade’ being by poured by Rush Limbaugh and G. Gordon Liddy.
I am living proof that you can recover from the ‘Cult of the Conspiracy’ that some people are gullible enough to join.
I believed in my Second Amendment right. I also believe that, like all rights, it comes with a LARGE measure of personal responsibility. I am responsible for what is done with my firearms if I am not around. I am responsible for where rounds go when I fire them. I am responsible to have someone I trust hold my weapons for me if I become somehow too unstable to be responsible for them. I am responsible to report them stolen IMMEDIATELY, if they are stolen. I am responsible to make sure my children 1) understand the first rule of firearm safety (every gun is loaded, even if someone tells you it isn’t), and 2) to make sure that they cannot get ahold of my firearms when I am not around.
Contrary to the far Right’s belief, there ARE people who have no business having access to firearms. And, while it’s true that if someone really wants one, they aren’t that hard to get, it doesn’t mean we have to go out of the way to make it easy. There are loopholes in the background check process that need to be closed. And we could do that. But, those who wish to maintain the status quo, and who see those dead children as ‘collateral damage’ and/or ‘the weak’ (as in, only the strong survive) will eventually die trying to make sure those changes never come. I fear I will be long dead myself before the status quo expels its last, agonal breath.
Keep writing! Thank you again for the essay.