For What It's Worth . . . . . Sigh . . .

 
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PARKLAND, Fla. (Reuters) - A 19-year-old gunman returned to a Florida high school where he had once been expelled for disciplinary reasons and opened fire with an assault-style rifle on Wednesday, killing 17 people before he was arrested by police, authorities said.

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The gunman surrendered to police without a struggle . . . Investigators believe he was armed with an AR-15-style rifle and had multiple magazines of ammunition, according to the sheriff.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-florida-shooting/ex-student-kills-17-in-shooting-spree-at-florida-high-school-idUSKCN1FY2WI

You want to know how The Gadfly believes that we can "make America great again" dear readers?  Make it so that nobody in this country - absolutely fucking nobody - should have to worry about sending their kids off to school - every day - wondering if they'll ever see them again because some psychopath with a gun fetish, and/or a deeply mentally disturbed mind, decides to exercise either his 2nd amendment rights and water his tree of liberty, or exorcise the demons that have been knocking around inside their head.

We, the majority of people, can change this.  But moral courage and resolve to effect change are not enough any more.  We have to be angry about this.  The Gadfly is talking about the kind of anger that makes you get up off of your fat ass and do something, anything to fix the problem.  Ahh yes -- the problem.  What is the problem here?  We all know what the problem is don't we?  And we all know that there is a simple, common sense solution to that problem - right?

But that simple, common sense solution is currently being held hostage, at gunpoint, by a minority faction of politically powerful, very vocal, unrelenting and uncaring group of people in this country, who will look you right in your face, and tell you that the 17 kids dead in Florida today are the price that you and The Gadfly must pay for our liberty.  Those people are full of shit.  Those people are evil --  Oh yes they are.  If you are the type of person who can look any one of the parents, grandparents, brothers, sisters or friends of one of these dead kids right in their eye, and unemotionally say to them that the lifeless, bullet-riddled body of their loved one, still laying in a pool of blood at the crime scene, was their price to pay for their liberty -- well, The Gadfly isn't going to mince words here -- you are one ghastly, evil motherfucking human being.

Nothing will ever change until enough moral heroes in this country decide to stand up and do something to effect meaningful change.  The Gadfly would gladly join in with that movement if he saw enough of his fellow Americans, who feel equally compelled as The Gadfly is to see an end to this madness and horror, get mad and do something to fix this fixable problem.  There is strength in numbers.

There's something happening here
What it is ain't exactly clear
There's a man with a gun over there
Telling me I got to beware

I think it's time we stop, children, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down

~~~ Buffalo Springfield, 'For What It's Worth'

----TFG