No more candle light vigils. No more piles of teddy bears. No more stacks of flowers. No more fences covered with ribbons. No more platitudes or speeches of remembrance. We react compassionately to tragic events after the fact. They fade from memory and we fail to act to prevent the next one.
There were probably a multitude of factors that collided in the Tucson shooting that left 6 dead and many more wounded.
First, it is much, much too easy to get guns in this country. I read recently that there are 85 guns for every 100 people in the US. If they were evenly distributed that would be almost be a gun for every man, woman and child in the US.
Secondly, access to health care in this country is atrocious Continue reading “No More Teddy Bears”