I Speak Life!

We have had more mass shootings in the United States this year so far than there have been days in the year.  More than one per day, and yet nothing is happening to make our system better.  All you see is a tragedy followed by scores of politicians going on social media and in front of the media talking about thoughts and prayers, as if that is enough.  It isn't enough, and my question is simple.  How many people have to die before this is an important enough issue to address on a national scale? As of August 4th, in the United States, more than 1,300 people have been injured or killed in mass shootings in 2019, according to data collected by Gun Violence Archive.  Gun Violence Archive defines a mass shooting as any event in which at least 4 people were shot.  By their calculations there have been some 292 mass shootings in the United States in 2019. The United States has more guns than any other country in the world.  There are over 120 guns per e...

So here is where we get to the meat and potatoes of politics.  Someone sharing the personal political views they have as an individual is something people don't do all the time.  Often times, people keep their views of major issues to themselves to avoid conflict.  Today, I am going to share with you all my views on some major hot button issues.  The Death Penalty - This has been a subject I struggled with personally for many years.  There was a portion of my younger years when I was pro-death penalty.  That was, however, an uninformed and simply emotional stance I took at that time because I hadn't really thought it through.  I simply thought, if you perform these horrible crimes, you don't deserve to live.  In my adult life, I have been educated, I have researched death penalty history, I have looked to the morality of the death penalty, and am vehemently against the Death Penalty.  One of the things I looked at in my research w...