Enough is enough... again!

MIAMI-DADE, FL - One of the most, or maybe THE most, cherished treasure a human being can have, is their offspring. It is a well-known fact that in the animal kingdom, when a mother of virtually any species, feels her offspring is being threatened in any way, “momma” gets really upset and she becomes very dangerous. In a very similar way, human mothers are the same.

We as “rational” beings can accept the fact that even fathers (males) get sometimes violent when his descendants are somehow threatened  in any way. Said this, it’s important to point out that our children, in general, are the most precious thing we have; not only that, they are, literally, the future of society and therefore the future of the world itself. That’s why any incident when children are hurt is so disturbing to all of us or at least the ones with a spine.

This time, it was one school shooting, unfortunately one more (so far in the year 2022 there have been 21 school shootings in the US) Uvalde, Texas was the unfortunate scenario of the latest one, where 19 of our precious descendants die in a very violent and unnecessary death.

Now, is it appropriate to start the conversation, again, of gun control? or are we going to fly with the right-wing narrative of “it’s not about guns, it’s about mental health”? It’s obvious that in order to go outside with the intention of killing a lot of innocent people, you have to be somehow mentally unstable, but take that as an excuse to not talk about gun regulations when in fact, a 2018 report of the FBI on the characteristics of active shooters found that only 25% of shooters from 2000-2013 had confirmed mental illness, is unacceptable.

At this point, let’s say the same old quote that has been repeated over and over again for quite a while now: enough is enough!

It’s clear to all of us that the NRA and the rest of the weaponry industry have been buying consciousness of politicians through lobbies forever, they fund and flood their campaigns with millions of dollars and therefore they don’t even care to consider legislate against them; which is not true, by the way, another talking-point from the right. Nobody wants to “get rid of your arms”, they want to regulate their acquisition, that’s it, make it a little harder so we won’t see another derailed teenager easily and legally buying two AR-15's or any other assault weapon or semi-automatic machine gun the moment he turns 18 in order to kill us all or our children.

Is it that hard to understand? Really that hard? Or, as many of us suspect, is it a matter of money? Unfortunately paid with the blood of our children, families or our own.

Written by Ricardo Martinez