PARENTS POWERFUL OR POWERLESS

The Holiday Season places a Great deal of emphasis on embracing your loved ones as you step out on Faith and lend a helping hand to others. I look at my three children and I say thank you God for blessing me with my babies no matter what their current age(they will say they are not babies anymore).

I also sit back and reflect and ponder on all the children that are losing their lives daily to crazy people with gun access. We all know that guns are not responsible for deaths, it is the people that pull the trigger that have the ultimate blame; but just like anything else in life, their needs to be restrictions. If I think about all of the people that would have felt my wrath if I had access to a gun at the time of my anger, I would seriously be doing hard time right now. I believe if you want a gun you should be allowed to have one (to protect yourself or for hunting), but we all need to pass a background check, and we do not need access to assault weapons.

Sometimes in life we allow our emotions to control us without thinking and we act, we cannot take back our actions after pulling the trigger. We cannot change what our immediate thought and actions were at the time we had that gun in our hands. The truth is even Police Officers and other Law Enforcement Agents have reacted out of emotion and have caused the loss of life of many civilians.

We believed that the Wild Wild West days were over, but the crying in the streets because of children losing their lives daily is not a movie, but rather real life and true reality.  We believe that these cries and pleas for help are being voiced by other people without realizing that the chances are we can become those parents crying; if we do not take stronger and more serious action to stop this massive violence plaguing our homes, communities and streets. I have two sons and a daughter, and I place my faith in God daily to protect them as there are no longer any safe havens, not even in our schools, to keep our babies safe.

Our children are being killed when they do the right things, when they are in the right places and they are following the right rules. If a child sits down in a classroom and is shot down like a beast in the wild, something is definitely wrong with this picture. I am a mother and I fear for the safety of my children. When my teenage son tells me how other children speak freely about shooting or taking the life of another child because of a mere disagreement, whether with malice intent or fabrication to sound important it can no longer be taken for granted.  THIS IS REAL. I AM CONCERNED WHEN THERE IS NO LONGER A HIGH VALUE ON LIFE. LIVES ARE DISMISSED DAILY LIKE IT MEANS NOTHING.

We ban marijuana in some states, we place restrictions on cigarette usage, drugs and alcohol, but guns are there to help us stand our ground, where do we live in Tombstone? The outrage to gun violence comes at the death of young children; and now all children are more fearful than ever before as they are exposed to the reality of the detrimental violence in this world.

Black youths have been murdered at alarming rates in many states and yet their cries for help have gone unheard and unnoticed. I believe the results of so many young lives being taken at one time is where the disbelief has now been unveiled. Reality is beginning to check in and comprehend in the minds of all. ALL OF OUR CHILDREN, NO MATTER WHAT CULTURAL BACKGROUND ARE AT RISK..

What does it say about us as a Society about the children that have always believed their Parents to have the POWER TO PROTECT THEM? We the Parents are becoming POWERLESS IN PROTECTING THE LIVES OF OUR CHILDREN. Do we have to spend our days at work wondering if we will see our children again? We cannot control everything, and it use to be just problem children would be effected by gun violence and those other communities, well now it is being recognized that all communities are being effected. We as Parents need to take back our Power and control and give our children the reassurance that we will be there for them, that we will do our best to protect them. No more senseless shootings and killings, no more parents sobbing with no relief in site. We have to take control and protect our children. People are not animals, if we have the knowledge to go to the moon, we can control gun violence.

I don't want to be another parent crying over of the loss of a child, WE HAVE TO STAND OUR GROUND AS PARENTS AND TAKE CONTROL OF THIS WILD, WILD WEST MENTALITY. WHY DOES ANY LAW ABIDING AMERICAN/CITIZEN NEED TO HAVE ALL OF THESE WEAPONS, ASSAULT RIFLES ETC. ???

WE AS PEOPLE, PARENTS AND CONCERNED CITIZENS NEED TO COME TOGETHER AND SAY NO MORE, WE WILL PROTECT OUR CHILDREN. WE MUST STAND POWERFUL AND NOT BE POWERLESS..