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America Needs Gun Control And It Needs It Now
Late on Saturday night, I was doing my usual routine of reading a few chapters of my book before I go to bed. I prefer to do this than look at my phone, as I don’t want to become addicted to the thing.
Once I had finished the few chapters I wanted to get through, I put my book down, looked towards and grabbed it.
So much for sticking to good habits!
I don’t know what compelled me to grab it, perhaps it was an innate desire to check the damn thing. When I took a look at my phone, what I saw did not surprise in the manner that it should.
The notification on my phone told me that there had been a mass shooting in El Paso in America. The only thing I could think of at that moment was, “not another one!”
The news was hardly surprising which says a lot about how commonplace these kinds of shootings have become. We have become desensitised to headlines along these lines.
What made matters worse was that when I woke up, news of another shooting appeared on my phone. I just shook my head in disbelief at the all too familiar headlines.
The number of shootings in America has become too long and too bloody to believe. I remember being a child reading about the Columbine massacre and scarcely believing what happened.
