A SCREED

They are right-Guns don’t kill people.

They are wrong==People don’t kill people. Bullets kill people.

Bullets from an A-45, TRAVELING AT 2500 FEET PER SECOND,

rip into the human body and smash organs; break bones;

splatter blood, brain matter, and tissue. Designed

to do such devastation in adult bodies,

imagine what they do to tiny, still-forming children’s bodies.

At Uvalde, authorities had to use parents’ DNA

to identify mutilated children.

Let people keep their guns. Ban ammunition.

The Constitution makes no mention of bullets

or ammunition. Banning ammunition would prevent

most of the murder plaguing this country.

And everyone would keep his or her

Second Amendment rights. Make it illegal

punishable by severe fines and prison time,

to sell high-caliber tumbling ammunition

to anyone except the military and that only

to specific order or stockpiled under heavy guard.

To get such measures passed will take some doing

To achieve the goal lawmakers need to be held accountable.

Therefore, every bill that comes before either house of Congress

should require a roll-call vote with the results posted

in newspapers and on television countrywide

and spread across all modes of electronic communication.

Campaign (and all other) financing for Congress should be

transparent, as well. We citizens deserve to know exactly

how our senators and representatives (whose salaries we pay)

stand on sensitive issues. We need to know from where who

is receiving blood money to buy votes. The blood on that money,

far too often. is the blood of babies and very young people.

By no means is this mean as a threat from me

to you members of Congress secure behind

your workplace screening but you need to remember

that you move in the public sphere like all the rest of us.

You go to theaters, to church or synagogue or temple;

you shop  grocery stores and in malls;

you attend public gatherings. Your families

are in these places of vulnerability.

Look at the photos of the carnage from Uvalde

and picture your children and/or grandchildren in them.

Then ask yourselves if NRA funds or other tainted money

is worth your loved one’s lives.

Shared by permission of Patricia L. H. Black