Okay, so, Roe vs. Wade is overturned. I'm in favor of babies living. That said, here's my list of things I really think they should have prioritized first, and had better prioritize quickly.
- Stronger anti-rape laws. No more "but his life will be ruuuiiined" sentences.
I’m not against addressing mental health issues.
I’m against scapegoating mental health issues in order to justify not taking steps toward common-sense gun control.
We can do both.
If children are slaughtered in their school and your reaction is “Don’t you dare think about taking my guns!!” rather than “How do we stop this from ever happening again??” then we don’t have a difference in political opinion. We have a difference in morality.
Across the country, parents are putting their children to bed, reading stories, singing lullabies—and in the back of their minds, they’re worried about what might happen tomorrow after they drop their kids off at school, or take them to a grocery store or any other public space.
Schools scared to death.
The truth is, one education under desks,
Stooped low from bullets;
That plunge when we ask
Where our children
Shall live
& how
& if
Their little bodies aren't even cold and we have pundits suggesting the solution is armed teachers and ballistic blankets for students.
This country is insane.
I honestly don’t know how I’m supposed to share a country with people who would rather see my little kids gunned down than have their “gun rights” restricted.
So to Republicans, a 12 year-old is old enough to be forced to give birth, get married, or shoot an assault rifle, but is too young to say "gay" or see bad words in a book?
Do I have that right?
I suspect some of the widespread exhaustion we are seeing in people is the result of returning to our pre-pandemic pace of life without our pre-pandemic emotional reserves.