Now Tulsa, the Lack of Gun Laws is the Problem

How mass shooting after mass shooting, GOP lawmakers do nothing.

In less than a month, there have been mass shootings after mass shootings and America can’t get laws passed to take guns out of the hands of people who should not be owners. What does it take to see the handwriting on the wall? All this is heartbreaking. Twenty more mass shootings have happened since the Uvalde, Texas mass shooting at Robb Elementary school.

Tulsa’s medical building, Oklahoma’s festival, Buffalo grocery store, Uvalde’s Elementary School, and an Orange County church. These are the ones that have made the news media.

Copycats are there and watching to do the same with little fear of any consequences if caught. A copycat trucker who resides in the LA area recently called multiple schools making threats of mass shootings and bombings. Thank God the police tracked him down via his girlfriend’s phone. He claims it was all harmless. There should be laws in place for copycats whose actions devastated communities.

It appears this country has gone mad with possession of guns and getting access to guns has become a pandemic that demands action before more and more innocent blood is shed.

Four people were slain at the Tulsa Natalie Medical Building, others wounded and the suspect is dead from a gunshot that is believed to be self-inflicted. Is this a lethal copycat syndrome happening, killing innocent people?

According to the media, this gunman arrived at the Tulsa Natalie Medical Building located on the St. Francis Health System hospital campus with a rifle and a handgun and killed four people while injuring countless others, so far.

Unlike in Uvalde, Texas police ineptness, where the police waited over an hour before entering the classroom with a key ended with 21 lives lost due to their hesitation, Tulsa police arrived on the scene minutes after dispatchers were called and made contact with the gunman.

Also, agents from the federal Bureau of Alchohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives were on the scene. During a crisis of this nature, the more resources the better, and the more lives can be protected and saved. Hesitation causes more deaths when action is needed expediently.

Sadly four are dead and an unknown number wounded but due to law enforcement’s action, more lives may have been saved. Law enforcement is trained in crisis management and needs to do their job or seek other employment.

One life lost at the hand of a gun is a travesty and multiple innocent lives lost are horrifically devastating, due to some disgruntled shooter with some misguided agenda or perception of their life, lack of respect for life, and race relations of the sort.

Nevertheless, since society is being plagued with a mentality that is perpetuating ill behavior with little to no consequences, causes other similar personalities to sit by and see how these shooters’ fair after a mass shooting determines their decision in becoming a copycat or not. Laws can deter this copycat behavior with the threat of jail time.

Deterrence is the key. While the Democrats are raising their voices for more gun laws and President Biden informed the Uvalde, Texas community that he would do something about the mass shootings, the Republicans are pushing back from gun laws to more guns in the classrooms and schools.

The GOP needs a reality check. If these teachers would have had guns would this massacre of these kids and teachers at Robb Elementary School have been prevented?

The GOP should ask the families and communities that have been devastated by mass shootings or any shootings for that matter at a school or any other facility. Why doesn’t the GOP listen to the public or the people they represent instead they only listen to those who boost their wallets with dollars. The GOP needs to stop playing games with people’s lives at the risk of losing their most staunch dollars supporters, namely the NRA.

Congress can’t get anything passed as long as the GOP keeps playing their power struggle game, “them against us”. Politicians with a personal agenda need to be voted out and replaced with leaders who want to represent and connect with all the people and the communities that voted them in to do the right thing.

In conclusion, when a bullet is released from a gun it does not discriminate when being discharged but hits its intended target. All those not in favor of more gun laws may find a bullet landing in their backyard, but it may be too late for the gun laws that should have been in place for prevention. Karma is real and does not discriminate either. Vote out the bad, vote in the good!

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