If you have been
following the news this weekend, the tragic death of 26 people in Newtown has
dominated the news cycle.
Adam Lanza, a 20-year
old gunman took away the lives of 20 kindergarten children and six staff
members at Sandy Hook Elementary school in Connecticut on Friday, Dec. 14, throwing the
hearts of the nation into a sudden grief.
This massacre comes in
the wake of July 2012 Aurora shootings that killed 12 people, the August 2012 Wisconsin
Sikh temple murder of six people and the 2011 Tucson Arizona terror in which
congresswoman Gabby Gifford was shot in the head and six others killed.
But the saddening truth
however is none of the earlier mass killings has resulted in any action to
control civilian gun use. Worse even, you wonder when the collective conscience
of the American public will rise up to say enough is enough in order to save
more lives in the recent future.
It remains to be seen
whether Friday’s gun violence will act as a catalyst to enact stricter gun laws
and thus change the gun culture in the United States.
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