This is an article in "Sagtown Magazine." It is quite extensive. It also points to the fact the children killed and maimed and communities traumatized are forgotten and never a part of the collective conscience of America. We only concentrate on the latest victims as if a need for support and grieving.
It is worth noting this trauma to our children and their families has been ongoing since the gun culture spawned itself as a political power and economic source of profits. Coming together with the understanding the most recent killing of school children is not the first in the USA has to strengthen the network of people to stop this culture from causing more and more deaths and trauma.
We know for a fact that gun control works. What are we afraid of to realize the body count of children increases through time?
BY S.T. VANAIRSDALE
...Yet the event in Stockton (click here) had an unprecedented impact on the American psyche, which has struggled ever since to reconcile the image of fallen kids with the power of its gun culture. As the first mass school shooting since the advent of CNN, it stunned and galvanized viewers in breathless televised loops. Within months of Purdy’s rampage, lawmakers up the road in Sacramento had passed America’s first major gun-control legislation, including statewide bans on 75 types of firearms (including the Norinco AK-47 rifle, Purdy’s main weapon). The nation’s gun-rights proponents, led by representatives of the three million-member National Rifle Association, fought back with lobbying and recall efforts that it wields effectively to this day. And from Stockton to Newtown, Conn., and everywhere else these grim anniversaries await, the echoes of gunfire and rhetoric dissolve around the heartbreak, heroism and recovery of those who were there. Then, at another ravaged school, the cycle that started at Cleveland resumes....
It is worth noting this trauma to our children and their families has been ongoing since the gun culture spawned itself as a political power and economic source of profits. Coming together with the understanding the most recent killing of school children is not the first in the USA has to strengthen the network of people to stop this culture from causing more and more deaths and trauma.
We know for a fact that gun control works. What are we afraid of to realize the body count of children increases through time?
BY S.T. VANAIRSDALE...Yet the event in Stockton (click here) had an unprecedented impact on the American psyche, which has struggled ever since to reconcile the image of fallen kids with the power of its gun culture. As the first mass school shooting since the advent of CNN, it stunned and galvanized viewers in breathless televised loops. Within months of Purdy’s rampage, lawmakers up the road in Sacramento had passed America’s first major gun-control legislation, including statewide bans on 75 types of firearms (including the Norinco AK-47 rifle, Purdy’s main weapon). The nation’s gun-rights proponents, led by representatives of the three million-member National Rifle Association, fought back with lobbying and recall efforts that it wields effectively to this day. And from Stockton to Newtown, Conn., and everywhere else these grim anniversaries await, the echoes of gunfire and rhetoric dissolve around the heartbreak, heroism and recovery of those who were there. Then, at another ravaged school, the cycle that started at Cleveland resumes....
