The sickness which is the NRA was today exposed to the entire world.
How shameful.
Many citizens by choice furthered their own education to offer what they could for the betterment of society. This includes teachers, doctors, nurses, health care workers, day care workers, paramedics, firefighters and other first-responders. We did NOT go into these professions for high pay. Nor did we do it for celebrity status. We certainly did NOT go into these professions to become armed thugs.
Police officers also went by choice into low-pay public service. But they went into that service with their eyes wide open, knowing that they might need to kill another human being to protect civilized society. They trained hard for their profession and constantly improve their skills with frequent mandatory training. I so respect their professionalism, their dedication, and their ability to carry out their duties.
Members of our Armed Services also went by choice (since the draft ended) into low-pay public service. Many of them gave the highest sacrifice. They died in service to their country - the rest of us - in most recent cases in a war based upon lies and deception. They also trained hard for their profession and constantly improve their skills with frequent mandatory training. They are all heroes to me, both those who gave their lives and those who have returned and made the transition back into civilized society.
Now the NRA, in its infinite stupidity, suggests that low-pay teachers, so oftenly degraded and debased by those on the right, must arm themselves to be protected from members of the NRA - those who feel they need weapons capable of firing eleven rounds into a six-year-old and splatter his or her body beyond recognition.
The NRA proposes to turn the entire United States, starting with its schools, into a military combat zone.
Shameful.
Insane.
Sick.
So what is their next step in their master plan? Hospitals? Doctors' offices? The nurse providing you life-giving intravenous feeding packing a side arm? The Heart Surgeons in the operating room giving life, but all packing?
It goes without saying that caring people who have chosen caring professions will NOT be turned into armed thugs to "protect" ourselves from NRA members.
Time to end this.