Kristin F Jones LMFT
MOURNING WITH THOSE WHO MOURN
To the people mortally wounded by gun violence in America and to their families,
we carry your pain deep inside us.
And to the policy makers of this country,
cultivate your goddamn moral imagination, already
🔔
we carry your pain deep inside us.
And to the policy makers of this country,
cultivate your goddamn moral imagination, already
🔔
The Young King of the Black Isles (painted by Maxfield Parrish, 1906)
An Appeal to Hollywood
Stop glorifying revenge, murder, suicide, and guns.
Write something of value, rather
than fueling the disgruntled with delusions of invincibility
and fueling the disheartened with illusions of hopelessness
The gun problem in this country is influenced by what people watch.
It takes a monster to kill children.
But to watch monsters kill children again and again and
do nothing isn’t just insanity — it’s inhumanity.
— Amanda Gorman
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650 Mass Shootings
in 2023
This total does not consider the gun deaths that did not make headlines.
On average, 48,000 people are killed by guns in America per year
which translates into 130 gun deaths in the US per day.
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Freud said, ''the family is a dictatorship of the most neurotic member'' and so it goes for our communities too, it seems
Americans must protect each other