Why I Dont Want Gun Lovers Grieving Another Massacre Alongside Me

[babylonsister]

https://johnpavlovitz.com/2015/10/02/why-gun-lovers-dont-get-to-grieve-another-massacre-with-me/

Why I Don’t Want Gun Lovers Grieving Another Massacre Alongside Me
October 2, 2015 / John Pavlovitz


Grieving
I am grieving again today.

Once more I am mourning the senseless execution of beautiful souls torn to shreds in the prime of their lives and in the middle of their innocent ordinary. I am again grieving more premature funerals and canceled weddings and discarded futures—and I want to be alone right now.

Gun lover, please don’t tell me you’re grieving along with me today too. You’re welcome to mourn, but I don’t think I want your company right now.

If you’re still against greater gun control measures—I don’t want you to grieve alongside me today.
If you’re part of the zealous, gun-glorifying community—I don’t want you to grieve alongside me today.
If you’re a militant, unrepentant NRA apologist—I don’t want you to grieve alongside me today.
If your right to bear arms ultimately matters more to you than the human wreckage strewn about movie theaters and shopping malls and elementary schools and nightclubs and hospitals and festival grounds—I don’t want you to grieve alongside me today.

Not again. Not now.

I just can’t accept your condolences and prayers and claims of solidarity—not now.

If I do, if I allow you to bow your head with me and speak a quick prayer before moving on to the exact same posture and practice and politics, then it feels like I am just consenting to more murder. It becomes an empty gesture. As a lover of life and person of faith I simply can’t do that in good conscience, and so I ask you to allow me to mourn in peace right now.

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[ProudMNDemocrat]

1. Superb post....

I totally agree with your rant.

[MLAA]

2. Right on.

[wellst0nev0ter]

3. I'm crying

because I struggled to recall the tragedy that prompted this post (Oregon college shooting).

There are so many of them it has become a blur.

[Hekate]

4. Not one more moment of silence. No. More. Silence.

[ThoughtCriminal]

5. Why does DU put up with them?

They attack us, spew the same talking points you can find on every right-wing board. Run up a few "hides" short of a ban and then lay low until the 90-day expires. If you haven't put them on "ignore", you can watch them repeat this pattern for years.