At Least 650 Mass Shootings in 2023: Domestic Terrorism is Destroying America
Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart
“Jan. 6 was not an isolated event. The problem of domestic
terrorism has been metastasizing across the country for a long time now and
it’s not going away anytime soon,” Wray told lawmakers. “At the FBI, we’ve been
sounding the alarm on it for a number of years.”
The former was a statement by FBI Director Christopher Wray
on March 2, 2021. Today we learned that in 2023 at least 650 acts of domestic
terrorism in the form of mass shootings joined every year since 2017 when the
number of such atrocities exceeded the number of days on the calendar.
Is this acceptable? If you said, “yes,” you are obviously a
member of one of America’s numerous Neo-Nazi groups: “Trump’s people.” If not,
you care about your safety and the safety of your family and friends. You
believe that we should not have to feel fear leaving our homes to attend a
concert, a movie, shop at a mall or grocery store, go to a gym, have drinks
with friends at a bar, attend services at a church, synagogue, or mosque, or
send our young children to school, you believe in my America; the one I
experienced for most of my 77 years. Today I worry every time my wife goes to
the grocery store.
Now this should frighten you. In his address Mr. Wray did
not tell us that law enforcement at all levels was making efforts to end this
unforgivable situation, he told us that in the U.S., domestic violence is
escalating.
I thought the tragedy from Sandy Hook elementary school
would be the worst story I ever covered for a newspaper. However, school
shootings continue as our federal government looks the other way, one-half of
congress focused on protecting their fascist leader. However, a story this week
left me dumbfounded.
On December 30, a Sacramento man, age 53, told his
10-year-old son to go to his car and retrieve his cigarettes. The boy found the
cigarettes, but also a loaded gun on the front seat. Later in the day he took
the gun to a friend’s house, also 10 years of age. During the event, the young
man shot his friend in the head. He died. The young man is now being charged
for murder, and his father as an accessory.
In 1976 the NRA moved away from being a gun safety
organization and into a lobby focused on increasing the profits of gun
manufacturers and gun sellers. If the NRA remained in its original form, and
its members followed their instructions included in a free pamphlet, the deaths
related to children and guns which number approximately 200-400 each year,
would never happen. There are no official statistics at a national level. The
only information about children and guns comes from local newspapers.
Our nation, primarily our federal government, must get
serious about the increase of domestic terrorism in America. The media has a
responsibility to stress the seriousness of this growing problem. “Thoughts and
prayers” do nothing but piss off the victim’s surviving families. No other
nation in the world has this problem. No other nation encourages virtually unrestricted
gun sales as does the United States.
The NRA uses the false claim of a growing need for home
protection. These acts of domestic terrorism are committed everywhere from the
workplace to our churches, schools and grocery stores. The time for change was
decades in the past and today it is mandatory that new, rigid laws protect the
majority from the gun nuts.
Write, call, or e-mail your congressmen and senators and
demand that they do the job for which they were elected, and do it today.
Op-ed by James Turnage
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