I am Tired

I am tired.

Dear Hank;

I am tired of hearing about people getting killed with guns.

I am tired of hearing about people getting killed in our high schools with guns.

I am tired of hearing about people getting killed in our grade schools with guns.

I am tired of hearing about people getting killed in our colleges  with guns.

I am tired of hearing about people getting killed in our shopping malls with guns.

I am tired of hearing about people getting killed in their work sites with guns.

I am tired of hearing about people getting killed in our gas stations with guns.

I am tired of hearing about people getting killed on our highways with guns.

I am tired of t people telling me guns don’t kill people people kill people. 

Tell that to our troops in Afghanistan, our police, our drug enforcement officials.

I am tired of people who claim to be able to read a sentence in English not able to read a sentence made of four independent clauses and not being able to understand that one clause modifies another.

I am tired of people being scared and feeling they have to arm themselves to go out of their house.

I am tired of people hiding behind the second amendment so they can have their childish fantasies fulfilled.

I am tired of the rabid screaming of people calling themselves patriots claiming they are defending themselves and their families.

I am tired of people who don’t know their history claiming things that aren’t true.

I am tired of people making convoluted arguments as to why they need a gun.

I am tired of hearing about my fellow citizens being threatened and killed by people with guns.

I am tired of the 2nd amendment arguments, the “well armed citizenry” arguments.

I am tired of people saying they have to carry a concealed weapon in their cars, on our trains, in our national parks, to work, to play, to shop, to walk around.

I am tired of seeing the statistics that show every other nation on this planet has figured out a way to curb deaths from guns but us.

I am tired of the stupidity, the cowardice, the head-in-the-sand attitude.

I am tired.

Bryce