this isn't the day to talk about this
(part ten)


ignorance isn't bliss. it's ignorant.

i've already given a friend a hard time about stat-ripping since the newtown massacre went down. "this country has stricter gun laws than us and has more crime. more death."

yada, yada, yada. we need more guns, not less. arm the teachers. arm everyone. arm the world. death to us all! yada, yada, yada... the hunger games is real. we kill children on tv for our own entertainment.

rabble, rabble, rabble. we're much more civilized than that. that would never happen. our country would collectively change draw the line in the sand. right there. no children killing children on television. NEVER!!! 

no, i won't bother with too many statistics. i'll just share one and one prediction, both from demandaplan.org.

as of this morning, the site cites that 5155 people have been killed by guns in this country since the night of the aurora, colorado shootings on july 20. since mass gun death is already on your brain, think of that number in all caps.

FIVE THOUSAND, ONE HUNDRED FIFTY-FIVE people in LESS THAN FIVE MONTHS.

fucking ridiculous.

FORTY-EIGHT THOUSAND predicted to die in the next four years.

fucking ridiculous.

guns don't kill people. people kill people. with guns.

fucking ridiculous.

we all have mass gun death on the brain, because, this time around, kids were involved. sweet, innocent children.

we've heard the reports now. sweet, innocent children doing nothing more than spending their day at school. maniac breaks in. shoots each child between two times and ELEVEN times.

we've had nightmares about what those bullets did to their little bodies, ripping them to pieces. we've hoped and prayed that they didn't know what hit them, because we can't stand the thought of a child suffering. we've already started removing the images and the thoughts from the front part of our brains, haven't we? we can't stand to keep thinking about it. we've got other things to do. we've got to go on with our lives.

god bless that small community of newtown, but thank god it wasn't trussville, right?

wrong.

because it could've been trussville. or chalkville. or huffman. or your child's school. or your grandchild's. it just wasn't on friday.

and for 5155 families in the last five months, it happened to them in their home, their place of employment, or somewhere else. some place, any place that they didn't expect to die from a bullet from a gun being held by a person.

fucking ridiculous.

just because we were lucky enough this time to not draw the short straw, does that mean it's okay to not change anything?

it's not.

i'm telling you, man. it's a bad way to live.

you keep telling yourself you're not going to have an ak-47 stuck in your forehead until you do.

you keep telling yourself you're not gonna get cancer until you do.

you keep telling yourself that our country's fascination with fucking guns is not going to come back and bite us. and then it does. over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and 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you get my point.

5155 in less than five months.

stop this shit. stop telling me it's better this way. stop telling me more people with guns is the answer.

please, stop it.

if those bullets ripping through those children isn't enough to change your mind, your mind is likely not going to change. i want to say, "shame on you". that's harsh. i'll just think it.

the same way you think i'm foolish for thinking that eliminating guns from our country and culture is a pipe dream and dangerous in its own right.

you're right. it wasn't your gun or your negligence that destroyed those children's bodies and lives.

it was someone just like you. just like me. someone that never thought it would happen to them.

only it did. and, god rest her soul, she was shot in the face, too.

it's time to change. it's past time to change. it's over time to change.

please, let's change.