No Time For Grief

I don't have time for a long post today but I have to take time to comment on the twin gun massacres that occurred this weekend within 13 hours a part, in El Paso TX and Dayton, OH. 


The mind numbing pattern of gun violence in the United States is just that, a pattern.


A person with a grievance or a grudge takes a gun to give voice to his rage.


A group of innocents are brought down in a hail of bullets.


We react with shock and horror that death can come about so quickly, so violently and we wonder, why can't something be done.


A group a politicians will cite the downward spiral of American culture that allows such violence, offer up "thoughts and prayers" and lament that that alas there is nothing to be done.


And the cycle repeats itself.


This cycle repeated itself in such short order over the weekend is a microcosm of life in America. We barely had time to process our shock and our horror and our grief over what happened in El Paso when it happened again in Dayton.


No gun laws will make us 100% safe from gun violence. But maybe if we could just slow the horror down enough to give us time to grieve. 


As it is, we have no time for grief, no time to mourn, no time to bury our dead before the next tragedy is upon us.