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What Assault Rifles Teach

Arming teachers to prevent assault rifle tragedies in schools Is like arming preachers to prevent epic sins and unorthodox errors in church. Are we teaching peace and restorative justice or war-mongering and retributive injustice? More hate and fear and anger? Or a touch of love and kindness and cooperative consciousness, mindfulness? More climate pathologies or finally some climates of multiculturing health? How to evaporate promising youth or how to facilitate resonant resilience of youth through WiseElders mentoring GoldenRules? Just because Trump does not believe in No Gun Zones does not discourage me from continuing to believe that Earth did rather well as a No Gun Zone for several tens of thousands of years before we came along, adding desecrating gunpowders and militarized self-righteous assaults with deadly automated weapons to Her sacred mix.

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Date: 2/21/2018 8:09:00 PM
Your poem aptly causes one to contemplate the complexity and place of guns in our society. Well written verse, Gerald.
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Gerald Dillenbeck
Date: 2/21/2018 8:26:00 PM
Thx much for saying so

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