School Shooting Drills in Kindergarten? - Our Kids New Reality

Every time I hear a news headline about another school shooting I just get so angry that we allow this to happen.  That we cannot do something to reduce the number of guns that get into the hands of nut-bugs who think its worth 15 minutes of fame to walk into a school of defenseless children with guns in hand (guns that they should never have been allowed to have in the first place) and murder as many children and teachers as they can.
It makes me angry that my Kindergarten and Second Grade grandchildren have to do 'shooter drills' at school.  That parents & grandparents have to be locked outside because of fear that one of us might be one of those nut-bugs.  That our school staff has to fear being killed when they go to work, at a wage that is already too low for the work they do, much less for hazard pay.

Why do we allow the NRA to have power over the peace and lives of children?  Why do we allow nut-bugs to get their hands on weapons legally when they have are obviously nut-bugs...in many cases their family, friends, neighbors, and co-workers know they have mental illnesses, but we allow them to legally buy guns at gun shows without even a check of their criminal or mental status.  We don't punish the people in their lives who make access to guns easy, like the mother of Adam Lanza (Newtown Killer) who purchased all of the guns and ammunition that he used to kill 20 children and 6 adults (including her). 

If we enforced gun registration like we do vehicle registration there would be less guns in the hands of nut-bugs because people who owned them and registered them in their name would not let them so easily get into the wrong hands.  No it would not solve the problem completely, but geez at least there would be some sort of maintenance over them.  If you had to register your gun like you do your car there would be an easy way to track who owned the gun used in the commission of a crime.  If you borrow my car and go kill someone with it, I am also liable... why shouldn't guns be that way?  If I want to drive a car I have to take a drivers training course and test for it, but I don't have to even know how to properly load a gun to get one of those.  If my car is stolen, I can report it and the VIN will help identify it if someone else is trying to sell my stolen vehicle...why not have that with guns?

The problem is, so many people buy into the bullsh!t that the NRA wants you to believe.  That President Obama wants to 'Take away your guns!" As depicted in this cartoon...

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However, THIS is more the Reality of gun control...

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What this is really about...Obama.  Sadly that is what it all boils down to.  The republicans have made it their goal to obstruct anything and everything that President Obama is for.  If he was against gun control I would be willing to bet they would be for it. 

When Ronald Reagan was Governor of California (see more about this story here) and had the BaJeezus scared out of him by the Black Panthers walking into the Capital building with loaded weapons, he proposed gun control so that no loaded weapon could be carried in any city in California except by law enforcement...and the Republicans supported him.   So maybe when the NRA (and Republican Politicians who are afraid of them) get the BaJeezus scared out of them, or one of their own children or grandchildren are killed at school by some nut-bug with an assault rifle and a bazillion round clip full of bullets, then maybe they will stop fighting 'Doing the Right Thing' for the safety of our kids.

This is not how I want my grandchildren to leave their school...

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