Let us ponder for a brief moment a simple number: 309.
That is the number of what we call “mass shootings” that have occurred in the United States just in the current calendar year.
Now, where I come from, they would be inclined to call that an epidemic. Yes, 309 incidents of mass shootings — defined as when we have more than four fatalities — have occurred in the Land of the Free and Home of the Brave. That’s just in 2022!
At this very moment, I am not feeling too damn free and I certainly am not feeling brave about the prospects of venturing too far from home.
They had a Fourth of July parade in suburban Chicago, for God’s sake, when the latest terrorist attack occurred. Authorities have just announced that a seventh victim has died from injuries suffered at the grimy hands of the shooter.
When in the name of all that is sacred is enough going to be enough?