WHEN IS ENOUGH, ENOUGH? HOW ABOUT TODAY?

Just terrible what happened up in Connecticut today.

There are just too many guns on our streets and in the hands of crazy people.

I am confident that this is not what the founding fathers had in mind when they drew up the second amendment to The Constitution, no matter what the NRA says. It is time that the influence and power of the NRA in this country be dimmed and overcome once and for all. They hurt the country and parents all over it.

It is too easy to obtain a gun in this country. It needs to be made much, much harder, the NRA be damned! It is people with guns that kill people and we surely need fewer guns and fewer people with access to guns in this country.

The NRA and those Republican politicians (almost all of them, along with a smaller number of Democrats as well) who pander and cow tow to them are to blame, as we experience mass shooting after mass shooting, be it in a mall or a movie theater or a place of worship or a college campus or now most tragically of all an elementary school where many of the victims were just 6 years old.

Something needs to be done and WE THE PEOPLE must be the ones to do it. We can no longer afford business as usual. If you agree, write your state legislator and your Congressman/woman today and keep writing them every single day until the gun control laws are changed in your state and nationally. For until they are, next time it could be your child or your wife or your husband who does not come home.

We need to break the grip of the NRA and institute sensible gun control laws in our country.  Thereafter, if guns can still be obtained illegally, we need to go after these criminals with all the resources that we can bring to bear.

As we see week after week with each successive mass shooting, the NRA  and the disproportionate influence they have over state legislatures and the US Congress is hurting this country and the people in it. Each death can be squarely laid at their door step and if we, the American people don't do anything about it, at ours as well.

No one in this country should be afraid to send their kids to school or to take their family to the mall or to a movie.

Our gun laws are indefensible and untenable. They need to be changed and now is the time.

When is enough, enough? How about today?