dramatic shots

When I decided to blog every day for the rest of the month, I thought about including a dramatic photo each day -- something like this. I never thought the term "dramatic shots" would have such a tragic meaning.

Even as I posted yesterday, I knew there was another shooting. They are becoming so common place; NFL guy over the weekend, Oregon mall the day before. A few hours later we knew this one was not common place. This shooting was at an elementary school, twenty young children were killed and it's one of the worst mass shootings in U.S. history.

Finally, it seems, we will have a national discussion about gun control, even though in this case gun registration is not the issue.

This mentally ill young man had access to registered guns in his home and used one to kill his own mother, in addition to the 26 others. So tragic. However, the idea that gun manufacturers are making weapons with special finish that resists finger prints, and actually cater to criminals is despicable. This is who we, as a nation, need to target and stop: those who make guns FOR criminals.

No matter what new laws are passed requiring stricter registration, manufacturing, or renewed bans of assault weapons and high capacity magazines, there are already 300 MILLION weapons in the U.S. alone. Criminals and psychopaths will always find a way to kill -- if not with a gun, then with a bomb or chemicals or some other horrible way. But, we must still have the conversation as well as look at why there is such a growing evil in the world.

More than ever I can see that my dad's dying words are so important: we must have PEACE on Earth. And, perhaps NOW is the time for the Peace Treatise.