Bad Day In Washington

Well, today was certainly not our finest hour. Once again, gun control has been defeated.  Amazing. One of my favorite slogans is “Evolution is a slow process” but come on!  Isn’t it time we made some sane, adult decisions about this? How many more people have to die? The slaughter in Orlando happened partly because a mentally unbalanced individual was able to buy an assault weapon.  Perhaps he would have found another way if he couldn’t get his hands on a gun. Perhaps he would have chosen another target if he couldn’t carry out his rampage at PULSE. There are many if/thens and none of them matters.  The fact is these weapons are made for one thing only and that is to kill human beings. They are not hunting weapons. You shoot a deer with one and you have deer dust. They are weapons of human destruction. Why are civilians allowed to buy them? You can’t by bazookas or rocket launchers. You can’t go out and purchase hand grenades. It doesn’t make sense, until you consider the strangle-hold the NRA has over seemingly all of Washington. Who are these people? Are they running our country? Why are our senators and congressmen listening to the NRA and ignoring the general public?Some claim their Second Amendment rights. The people who wrote the Second Amendment had no idea there would ever be such a thing as an automatic rifle.  By blindly adhering to something written over 200 years ago we deny ourselves the capacity for growth and change. I believe we are more flexible than that. I believe we have the power to recognize and make the changes necessary to promote our evolution.  Maybe banning the sale of automatic weapons  won’t stop these mass shootings but at least it would remove one element from a complex and terrifying problem and I can't see any reason not to do it  I beg everyone to consider this in November. Please.