Children with guns and dodging Bullets- A new American Sadness
Readers, followers, I have tried and I have waited to write, to blog about something upbeat, positive and new. The unfortunate fact remains that as sure as the sun will rise in the east and set in the west the news every day brings more reports- just locally, of gun violence. Lives threatened, ruined, mamed and lives ended. Lives barely lived, ended by senseless and needless gun violence. Shootings by actual children that have not even reached their teens. This isn't just a Philadelphia phenomenon but it is the metropolitan area where I live so it is a constant theme. Everyday...and it has become the new American Sadness. The first thing that jumps out is; where are all the guns coming from that these kids are getting? I've written about the teenagers, the older teens, but now it is 11 and 12 year olds. No school yard tussles. Kids argue and then later someone gets shot. Sometimes you would worry about "getting jump...