{"id":676,"date":"2017-11-06T11:02:55","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T16:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/?p=676"},"modified":"2017-11-06T16:58:53","modified_gmt":"2017-11-06T21:58:53","slug":"will-enough-ever-be-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/will-enough-ever-be-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Enough Ever Be Enough?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Somehow it is never enough.<\/p>\n

Killed:
\n<\/em><\/strong>Columbine 15
\nSandy Hook 20 children 8 adults
\nCharleston\u00a0\u00a0 9
\nThe Harvest Music Festival 58
\nPulse night club 49
\nVirginia Tech 32
\nFirst Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs: 26
\nSan Bernardino: 14
\nEdmond, Oklahoma: 14<\/p>\n

This is a short, non<\/em>-comprehensive list. But somehow it is not enough.
\nNot enough to strengthen gun laws.
\nNot enough to wrestle political power from the NRA.
\nNot enough to stop making a false distinction between terrorists (brown) and mentally ill (white) shooters.<\/p>\n

Can we not agree that mass murder is a terrorist act and that anyone capable of committing those atrocities has significant mental health challenges – no matter their brand of political or religious fanaticism, \u00a0no matter the color of their skin?
\nCan we agree that there is ABSOLUTELY no need for any civilian to own an automatic weapon?
\nCan we agree that a bunch of armed white supremacists are not \u2018a well-regulated militia\u2019?Can we agree that arguments made by the gun lobby are specious and self-serving?
\nCan we agree that gun culture also leads to increased violence against women and children?
\nCan we agree that we are afraid?
\nCan we agree that enough is enough?<\/p>\n

Stopping gun violence is a feminist issue.
\nBetween 2001 and 2012 more than 6,400 women were killed by intimate partners using guns\u00a0\u2014\u00a0more than the total number of US troops killed during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars combined. Women in the US are 11 times more likely to die this way than women in other high-income countries. \u00a0\u00a0https:\/\/www.opendemocracy.net\/5050\/sarah-clements\/gun-violence-trump-america<\/a><\/p>\n

Can we agree that enough is enough?<\/p>\n

In the 1990s, politicians backed by the NRA attacked researchers for publishing data on firearm research. For good measure, they also went after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for funding the research. According to the NRA, such science is not \u201clegitimate.\u201d To make sure federal agencies got the message, Rep. Jay Dickey (R-Ark.) sponsored an amendment that stripped $2.6 million from the CDC\u2019s budget, the exact amount it had spent on firearms research the previous year.<\/p>\n

Can we agree that enough is enough?
\nAnd if you believe enough is enough then make your ‘thoughts and prayers’ have hands and feet.\u00a0<\/em>
\n-Write, email, and call your senators and representatives. They hear from the gun lobby enough. They need to hear our voting voices loud and clear.\u00a0http:\/\/act.commoncause.org\/site\/PageServer?pagename=sunlight_advocacy_list_page<\/p>\n

-Give as you are able to anti- gun violence organizations. The NRA is a powerful lobbying group that represents gun manufactures more than its membership and can pay politicians for votes. \u00a0https:\/\/giffords.org\/\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

We must change the conversation so that it is completely and utterly ‘populist’ to support gun control. \u00a0Because enough is enough.<\/p>\n

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Somehow it is never enough. Killed: Columbine 15 Sandy Hook 20 children 8 adults Charleston\u00a0\u00a0 9 The Harvest Music Festival 58 Pulse night club 49 Virginia Tech 32 First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs: 26 San Bernardino: 14 Edmond, Oklahoma: 14 This is a short, non-comprehensive list. But somehow it is not enough. Not enough … Continue reading Will Enough Ever Be Enough?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24,28,23,25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=676"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":680,"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676\/revisions\/680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}