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Mass shootings, children being gunned down in cold blood; a dark stain on the soul of America

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It's absolutely mind boggling to think that there have been 22 school shooting so far this year. The media always asks this other question: how do these troubled individuals get these weapons? In at least two recent cases they got them from their fathers. In one of them a young man had his AR15 taken away by the police. The police later gave it to the father for safe keeping. And then, at some point, the son somehow got it back and then used it to kill innocent young children.

Those in law enforcement in all parts of America are doing everything they can to address this massive problem but they can only react to situations after they happen. They are greatly frustrated but can't do much of anything except following the current laws which are just not strong enough.

Republicans are morally bankrupt, as they see the slaughters and just look the other way. Democrats want to see far stronger gun control measures put into effect but they don't have the courage to speak out in loud voices to rally the American people and get them on their side. They should be demanding that this problem becomes a #1 priority. When Republicans watch these mass shootings happen continuously and then purposely do nothing then we can accurately say that they are complicit in these atrocities. They are guilty of the crime of inhumanity.

We can debate this critically important matter forever, from the need for stronger background checks to a ban on all assault-style weapons, bump stocks and huge ammunition magazines, and nothing will change; that is, unless we make our #1 objective the removal of the massive impediments, the large obstructions blocking the way to finding solutions..

Those impediments, the large obstructions, are the Republicans in Congress. Our objective then is simply this: starting with the November elections and those in the following years we must remove every single Republican from Congress and make certain they never return. After we cleanse the Congress of these contaminants then rational-minded, clear thinking individuals can get together and come up with a host of solutions to this epidemic of mass shootings.

It's worth repeating; the only way we can save our children is to remove every Republican.

Michael Payne

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