Our country is in the midst of such a sharp decline we xant even properly ifentify where the real problens lie. A young man with a criminal record pssessing a loaded semu automatic weapon refuses to comply with police instructions to drop the weapon and is shot and killed. The city of Milwaukee explodes.
An innocentyoung man, one if our own sju students, is murdered on the streets og Chicago in a case of mistaken ifentity. There will be no outrafe, no protests, no leaders c alling for jystice - probably not even on our own campus.
Prayers to the family if this young man and for him. He is most certainly in a better place but perhaps a future shining star, a son of st johns whose light is snuffed out senselessly.
Typos my man!
Otherwise agree with your message.
Hate to turn a basketball forum into a political rant, but no one -- whether with a criminal record or not (like so many first-time offenders) -- should have access to military-style assault weapons, especially in today's political climate. Even the conservative patron saint, Ronald Reagan, who not only signed the Brady Bill into law but also actively supported its passage by Congress, recognized this. There is ZERO need for any private citizen to own an assault weapon; and the massacres we've sadly become acclimated to seeing as everyday news events -- whether they be by psychos (like at Newtown, Columbine, Aurora) or home-grown jihadists (like Orlando and San Bernardino) would never have taken the tolls they did without them. If courts have ruled (or perhaps it's never been challenged) that citizens cannot own fully automatic machine guns, or bazookas. or shoulder-launched surface-to-air missiles, there's no reason why citizens should own military-style assault weapons,which are simply mass killing machines, nothing more, nothing less. Mea culpa if I took this too far, but I am sick and tired of seeing so many fellow citizens, some as young as 1st and 2nd graders --and in this case, a fellow St. John's brother -- senselessly taken down.
