Hello Fellow Travelers!
I'm not very political. I vote (mostly because I complain a lot), but I usually refrain from taking a position on anything. I gave my "gravitas" (Silent/stern-but always moving) to this cause. I felt compelled to participate in the gun law reform march at The Capitol (Sacramento) partly because kids and school employees should not worry about getting shot. Ever! Gun violence is a little like brain cancer - deadly and unpredictable. Unlike cancer, guns in schools is a completely man-made disaster, entirely preventable. Nobody should suffer for getting an education. Teachers suffer more than most, molding young minds is a noble endeavor that probably doesn't pay much. School is hard enough as it is. Those plucky kids in Florida saw what I saw - Death - and the ones who survived told us what they saw, what to do.
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Marching in Sactown - It Was Epic!
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A neurologist (brain doctor) called last week with my MRI results: I learned on Friday that I'm still a "medical miracle" - whoopi - the MRI came back clear - big deal - I could have told you that, I know that much. What I'm still "processing" (a thing? Like "air quotes"?) is that having annual MRIs is permanent. I'll always be looking for cancer's return (I can't speak, I can't wear heels, I'm a Weeble, (but I fall down, a lot), but I'm a cancer-free Weeble!). Moving on...
Remaining among the living is a necessity. Higher learning, neuroplasticity, memory function are all pretty useless if you're dead. Guns in schools are not conducive to anything but death. I've given money and school supplies to teachers - I do NOT expect (or want) an instructor to "be packing heat".
The "March" was meaningful on several levels: Lots of citizens, clever signage, and many, many, natty pets! There was chanting! There was chatting! It was Democracy-In-Action! I had been waiting to object to Trump's stupid wall, then Parkland happened. I rolled, (was pushed) with a boisterous-but-happy crowd to the state capitol where the signs were funnier, the chanting was louder and there were speeches! It was awesome!
I met some kids who are close to voting age, they see their journey ahead and they are determined to change the rules. It works!
Why anybody defends the "right" to have automatic weapons and the "right" to be a mass murderer is beyond me, too! Tommy guns were banned many years ago, the paranoid ultra-survivalist types are still hunkering down for shooting their way out of a changing world. But the laws on mental health records secrecy must be changed, too, the Vegas madman was on valium, and prozac has been implicated, but ever since Watergate, somehow, mass murderer's autopsy and drug drug results are sealed from public review. And psychiatrists and counselors don't even need to keep any records at all! When it is life-and-death for everyone...
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