Politicians share many of the traits needed to win approval from the masses to hold offices of varying degrees of power. The higher the office, higher the power in the hands of the person elected, or appointed.
We allot privileges to those we elect in the belief their promises to care and protect us are possible and well meaning. But, sometimes, something happens on the way to the forum; promises of protection are forgotten. By allowing the manufacture, sale and unlimited ownership of guns and ammunition, our children and innocent persons are always at risk of being killed by someone going berserk with a gun in another mass killing.
How many of these killings have to take place before legislators acknowledge the need to pass laws preventing such wide, wild use of guns? One would think the shooting of American presidents would have initiated a law of some kind. Stop talking of 'shoes and ships and sealing wax, of cabbages and kings', and pass a law that actually protects the public from unauthorized use of firearms.
"The time has come," the Walrus said,
"To talk of many things:
Of shoes—and ships—and sealing-wax—
Of cabbages—and kings—
And why the sea is boiling hot—
And whether pigs have wings."
Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There
Lewis Carroll (1871)
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