When I saw one of state representatives in Congress post-Christmas cards with pictures of their kids around the tree, clutching military-style weapons, I was speechless, but seeing the source not surprised. How did we allow this fringe element of our society to gain so much power? Where did America go wrong?
The problem isn't the guns. The problem is us. Our taste for gun violence, which shows in the Holiday greeting from, Boebert and Massie, is a uniquely American crisis. If you've ever been to Switzerland, you may know it's a country armed to the teeth but with zero school shootings, annually.
Second Amendment doesn't say you can't have guns, because it clearly does, that question has been asked and answered. But, every time a Republican post a picture of themselves and their families snuggled up to the muzzle of a semiautomatic rifle especially after a mass shooting, I wonder what the Founding Fathers would think if they knew that this was what was to become of the Second Amendment. Surely, they would find it infinitely sad, infinitely pathetic that we have not made necessary changes.
We are the source of our own tyranny. We are also the solution. We must use common sense to solve this uniquely American crisis, and common sense begs us to do better in electing our representatives and getting rid of them when they cross the line.
We must eliminate the problem, which is the Republican Party. They must be voted out of existence, then we will have a chance to build a better future.
