Guns and Terrorism 4

Thinking about pain, grief, and sorrow:

It is really heart-breaking to see so many senseless, meaningless mass shootings over the last few years. I often feel that I have lost the ability to feel. Then again, if I had lost a kid in a school-shooting, I think I would like somebody to sympathize with me. Shared sorrows bring warmth and depth to the human heart.

I have often thought about my inability to feel the pain of others, the pain of Americans who feel that their America is gone, the pain of foreigners going through dire poverty, and the pain of foreigners, dying cruel and unjust deaths.

Just today, I was watching the news. Terrorists who were on the "no fly list" after 9-11 can still purchase guns. I was thinking, "These politicians are idiots." Now, they are trying to make it illegal for the "no-fly" terrorists to purchase guns. Now they are doing it when they should have done it immediately after 9/11.

I am a Christian and I am supposed to have "agape" like Christ did... universal love. Sometimes, I do deeply sympathize and fall into deep tears and guilt. Most of the time, I conclude that we live in a evil world and these problems are not mine to solve. However, with guns, I really think it is a solvable problem. Stores need to comply and not just sell guns to anyone. These stores need to be closed or reprimanded. Gun control can happen not just because of terrorism, but because we value human life and its unique meaning.