I’m going to submit this to the Kansas City Star. It captures my outrage at another senseless mass shooting.
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As I write, there is news about the latest mass shooting at a Texas elementary school. The initial reports are thirteen children and a teacher are dead.
As we all know, we not must politicize such mass shootings. Rather, now is a time to offer thoughts and prayers to the victims and families. Even after a period of mourning, there is nothing we can do to control guns because we must not infringe on the right to guns enshrined in the Second Amendment.
In this paralyzing climate over gun control, I offer a modest proposal.
We should erect a monument, ideally in front of the National Rifle Association, that recognizes the sacrifice of the hundreds of Americans who have lost their lives in mass shootings in service to the Second Amendment.
The great advantage of such a monument is that, after a mass shooting like in Texas, we can all come together as the names are affixed to it and remember those who died for our right to keep and bare arms and why we can do nothing to control guns.
I looked forward to gun rights advocates starting a self-funding campaign for such a monument.