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One Sick Person

We’ll never understand what makes A random gunman tick. To shoot a stranger does imply That person must be sick. Yet even if that is the case, There should be in the brain A message getting through demanding That he should refrain. A bunch of people shopping Or a rider on the Q Or a class of 4th-grade students – Not a one of them who knew… That his life would soon be over; There’d be no more stress or fun, All because of one sick person Who had access to a gun.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2022




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Date: 6/18/2022 7:48:00 PM
I also blame the media - if they stopped "celebrity-izing" the shooter, the shootings might stop. Some of these sickies know the only fame they are going to get involves a gun.
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Date: 5/28/2022 10:46:00 PM
tears...
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Date: 5/26/2022 8:44:00 PM
Another tragedy, you have expressed this so well!
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Date: 5/26/2022 5:18:00 PM
Well writ lovely. It boggles the mind. All of it. Every bit of it. xomo
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Date: 5/26/2022 12:17:00 PM
makes me so glad we dont have guns over here, the massacre is so terrible, all those innocent lives wiped out by a madman, i just don't understand how these things can happen:-( hugs Jan xx
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Date: 5/26/2022 10:56:00 AM
Well said, Ilene! Life can be terrible when God takes a coffee break! Aloha!
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Date: 5/25/2022 12:51:00 PM
Thank you, Ilene. I have tried to get this message across to some here, but they have said their piece and then cut off commenting. Thanks for this: "All because of one sick person Who had access to a gun." NO GUNS, Nineteen lovely children and two caring teachers alive today! It's pretty much that simple to me.
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Date: 5/25/2022 12:43:00 PM
Heartbreaking watching the news on the shooting, what sort of person could carry out such a heinous crime.? The children are at peace but the parents will never get over it. Tom
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