Tears are common. At times, tears run when something happens that seems to strike the crazy bone. When the preposterous happens, one cannot stop the tears.
Then there are happy occasions, the times when your children graduate from high school or college or the times when you see them holding the hand of a person in marriage.
These times are when we treasure our tears.
There are other times, however, when the tears flow because of senseless tragedy. To watch family members bursting in tears because their child or children were killed with a gun, in spite of the fact that the victims were not personally known. The killer killed because of pure anger.
Those times are becoming so common. Usually what becomes common becomes rather just a blip. However, as of 8 June 2022, there have been 242 mass shootings occurring in our nation.
I admit being unable to listen too much to the details. It is too painful to know, for instance, that one child killed in Uvalde was only identified by the green sneakers. Wow!
What is also disturbing that so many of elected officials are reluctant to change the gun laws to control how licenses are obtained. In one sense, I get tears of anger when i think of this.
In such a world, I almost feel guilty that I live in peace with expectations that I will not be harmed thoughtlessly by others. However it does not stop my tears.
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