— Caleb Keeter (@Calebkeeter) October 2, 2017Courtesy of WaPo:
“I’ve been a proponent of the 2nd amendment my entire life. Until the events of last night. I cannot express how wrong I was. We actually have members of our crew with [Concealed Handgun Licenses], and legal firearms on the bus,” Keeter wrote. “They were useless.” He continued:
We couldn’t touch them for fear police might think we were part of the massacre and shoot us. A small group (or one man) laid waste to a city with dedicated, fearless police officers desperately trying to help, because of access to an insane amount of fire power.
Enough is enough.
Writing my parents and the love of my life a goodbye last night and a living will because I felt like I wasn’t going to live through the night was enough for me to realize that this is completely and totally out of hand. These rounds were just powerful enough that my crew guys just standing in close proximity of a victim shot by this f—ing coward received shrapnel wounds.
We need gun control RIGHT. NOW. My biggest regret is that I stubbornly didn’t realize it until my brothers on the road and myself were threatened by it. We are unbelievably fortunate to not be among the number of victims killed or seriously wounded by this maniac.
(Keeter is the lead guitarist for the Josh Abbott Band)
Yes, of course we need gun control, but the Republicans are still saying that it is wrong to talk about it in the wake of this most recent shooting, because it would be "insensitive" to politicize it.
The problem of course is that after a couple of weeks everybody's nerves will calm down, and nobody will feel compelled to talk about it at all. That wouldn't be goal would it?
rhetorical question, of course it is.
That's why the NRA is delaying TV ads in Virginia.
Gotta wait for the dust to settle.
According to Quartz this is the 338th mass shooting in 2017.
That is more than one mass shooting a day.
So this one band member's position on the 2nd Amendment has been changed, but for the rest of the country, who were NOT ducking bullets while people around them were murdered, this is still an academic argument.
So do we need to wait until EVERY American barely survives a mass shooting in order to see a change to our gun laws?
Because sadly even then that may not prove enough of an incentive.
Simply put, you cannot call yourself the greatest nation on earth if your citizens are being gunned down in random shootings every day.
Why is that so damn hard to understand?
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