No guns in our schools.
No guns in our school.
A new year is here
Time to make resolutions and wishes.
My fourth child will graduate next year.
No security guards with guns in their schools.
USA is still the land of the free and the brave.
I fought for freedom. I have no fear of going to work and living in my world.
I believe we cannot be govern by fear. If fear control our world. We have nothing left.
Children must be able to dream and never allow fear to control their thoughts and their world.
If we allow fear to overtake us. Security men with guns roaming our schools. We allowed terror to overtake us.
Be logical. Use proper security and insure only people who need to be are allowed in the schools.
First we will have security guards. Then high fences and then barb wire. Schools are not prison camps or war zones.
What are we teaching our children? Don’t listen to NRA foolish voices. Laws are needed for automatic weapons. Most big cities have written laws in effect for many years.
There is no perfect system. It is a hard world for many. USA need opportunity and help for the people in need. When a child cried out for help. Someone need to be there. Parent must show concern and the school system at all levels need to be alert to possible problems.
Let’s pray.
Let’s use logic and wisdom.
Foolish men need to be quiet.
Children need to celebrate each new day.
We cannot live in fear. This is the USA.
Home of 300 million people.
Terror cannot control us. Teach the children well. They are the future. Show them the world is good and the possibilities are unlimited.
A new year is coming. I pray for peace. All our Soldiers on the USA soil.
I pray the new wars are on sickness and starvation in our world.
I hope and pray for peace in the Middle East.
I pray every child had a safe place to rest and food to eat.
Children are the future. They must be fearless.
It is time for forgiveness, love and healing. Not a lot of time left if we seek war and violence.
Let the children sing, dance and dream in our world.
When we need a armed security guard in our school. We allowed fear to kill the desire of freedom and hope.
We need more voices like yours in the world!
I was a Soldier. I taught many old and new weapons to Soldiers. A lot of Soldier struggle with some weapons. Gun need to be far away as possible from the schools. This is a very sad incident. Similar thing happen at the North Carolina college a few year back. Did we teach our professors to have weapons? Need proper security and to pay attention to our kids. That include both parent. Thank you for your comment..
Thank you for a voice of reason. I have enjoyed browsing your blog and reading your writing from the heart. Thanks too, for following my blog
Thank you for the comment. We cannot allow fear to run our world. Too many have fought and died for us to be free and controlled by fear.
Wise and wonderful words John. Yes, may our wars be against hunger and sickness, homelessness and starvation, not against each other. Thank you for this insightful post!
Thank you for the comment. Need leaders with the ability to create peace talks. Can’t always lead with the gun. Sometime a smile and a handshake can open the door to peace and hope.
So true — what an inspiring poem, John! Beautiful words about children. I wish everyone shared your sentiments. Steph
Need to motivate dreams of children. Not create fear. Thank you for the comment.
With all of the technology in the world today there has to be a better way I agree
Good post John and I agree with Mjollnir. The same thing happened in Australia in 1996 when Martin Bryant went on a shooting spree at Port Arthur, Tasmania. 35 innocent people were killed and 23 were injured. That was the event that transformed gun control in Australia. Security guards in schools is not the answer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_politics_in_Australia#The_Port_Arthur_massacre_and_its_consequences
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Arthur_massacre_(Australia)
Thank you for the information. I trained Soldiers how to shoot weapons for 15 years in the Army. Not that easy to handle and control. What are we telling our children when arm guards are needed to protect schools? Most big cities have good laws about any type weapon. My city Detroit had hard and good laws for many years. Thank you for the comment.
Mass shooters will never follow laws. I have never found commonly available firearms hard to control or outside the capability of the ordinary citizen. Armed guards in schools are probably not the answer, I agree, but neither is gun control/gun banning.
I agree. Been act of murder since the birth of this world. We must teach our children to appreciate life and be safe.
Yes, let us speak the truth! We all know how we want to live – you have spoken it here clearly! Peace Now! Thanks you for your courageous stand ~
Tomas
Thank you for the comment.
Beautiful and essential if our nation is to survive.
John,
Superb poem! I am moved by your words. Merry Christmas. xo
Thank you Cindi for stopping bye. Can’t allow mad men to control our world.
Thank you, John, for putting in words what I could not… those children were about my daughter’s age and I had not been able to speak or write about the horror of the school massacre.
I have two grand-boys who are three years old. I want them to live in a world without fear. We can’t over react. Making our school prisons is not the answer. Need stricter rules for entrance into school and to identify children who need help and guidance. No perfect child. We must teach and be there for them. The school massacre make us realize. Our schools are important. Need a safe place and good teachers. Thank you the comment.
Prayer and goals for the New Year, this one ends and another begins. Let it mark a new beginning. Happy New Year -2013..make it special like a royal queen. Grant us the wishes that we want in the year to come
I hope you had a good Christmas and a Happy New year. My goals are similar each new year. Safe place for my kids and all kids to live and grow. Thank you.
Happy New Year -2013. Thank you for your comments. In my report you are one of those who made my blog worth something.
Great post, God bless you.
Thank you John. NRA is embarassing themselves. Loud foolish talk tell the world. Your words is meaningless. Even Soldiers in training used fake bullets. Guns in schools won’t make them safer. Hard to stop mad men. Mad men kill in public lately is alive and strong. Our world is in trouble. No jobs with good pay and people are scare and desperate. Education and real jobs are the answer. Leader’s in Washington need to quit wasting money on useless acts. Create real jobs and opportunity.
I totally agree John! If only we the people could go clean house… That opportunity was squandered recently but that’s another topic. God bless.
Revere saw the lights in the steeple. Took to horse. Raced from town to town, shouting in a frenzy, “To arms, to arms”. And a nation purposely put a blind spot before the Sermon on the Mount. Fort Sumter. Pearl Harbour. Nine Eleven. Same rebellion. Same roadblock to rest. And leaders, dumbfounded, call this responsibility.
I WW2. Japan would not attack the California coast. They say 250 million guns are owned by USA citizens. A hard subject to discuss. We can’t make schools prisons. The kids need a safe place to learn. They should have no concern for danger. Learning and friendship should be the the goal of a school building.
Good post John. As a former soldier you know only too well the damage guns can do. In Scotland in 1996 a man named Thomas Hamilton killed 16 kids and a teacher. A year later all handguns were banned in Scotland. His atrocity has never been repeated. America must wake up. Gun control now. Happy Christmas to you.
Would be a sad world if children fear going to school. Time for logic. Arming more people and putting them in the school is not the answer. How many banks had been saved from robbery by a armed guard? Thank you for the comment.
Thank you for your kind words.