998 mass shootings in the US since Sandy Hook… Where America’s Children were massacred while at school. Since that time, nothing has changed. You can still get an assault weapon, a semi automatic, bullets that penetrate armor… Weapons that are purely designed to efficiently kill humans.  This isn’t for your favorite sport of hunting down and feasting on Bambi… This isn’t for self protection. These guns are to kill people. People like me, like you, like your adorable children. Churches, schools, movie theatres, malls, clubs, sporting events, military posts.. Everywhere… Anywhere…

So what has changed… Each time, Congress has a moment of silence, President Obama honors the dead, our nation’s flag flies at half mast… And that’s it….

Well.. That’s all that changed unless you are the mom, dad, brother, sister, lover, teacher, neighbor, husband, wife, cousin, son, or grandparent of someone killed or forever wounded due to our inaction.  Because a lot has changed for them.

 Nothing has changed unless you are the police officer, emergency worker or trauma surgeon on that day who will never wash the blood soaked images from their indelibly marked minds…

 Nothing has changed unless you knew the person or people who carried out the crime… Wondering every second of every minute of every day if somehow you could have recognized  the plan and stopped it. 

Nothing has changed unless you’re Muslim or from middle eastern descent and are now the undeserving victim of nationwide republican candidate sponsored discrimination.

Nothing has changed if your phone hasn’t rung or the police haven’t shone up at your home to gather you and inform you of your loss. But as the numbers increase.. So do the chances that they will. 

GUNS KILL PEOPLE. Period.

It’s not just the mass shootings. There is domestic violence, an increase in suicide (particularly in teens), and look at our inner city high schools here in Miami… There is an all out war in effect and we are losing our precious inner city youth on a daily basis to gun violence. 

BUT YOU WANT TO KEEP YOUR GUN.

To hell with you. Today I told my 7 year old what to do if she sees someone with a gun while at the movies. A conversation no mother in the United States of America should have to have. But yet, we do… We are no longer free. We are imprisoned by our racism, our bigotry, and our appropriately placed fear. So you want your gun?  Then it will happen again. We will see 999… 1000… And so on. More Americans dying on American soil from gun violence than died in war in Afganistan. This isn’t about them…however you define them… This is about US, our families, our children, our beautiful diverse nation, and it must stop. 

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“Hate can never win. Together we must be sure of that. Your tragedy is our tragedy” James corden

Tonight #PrayForOrlando

Tomorrow, stand up, put down your gun and #prayForAmerica