Politicians Have Blood on Their Hands

I’m Not Going to Take This Anymore! Are You?

JD's Stories From the Mountain ~
4 min readMay 25, 2022
Photo by Colin Lloyd on Unsplash

Watching the news … 14 kids and 1 teacher… dead in Texas. That was 2 hours ago. Then updated to 15 kids dead and 1 teacher. Now it’s 19 kids dead and 2 adults. Over 30 people dead, murdered by 18-year-old kids, in 10 days.

Providing figures to people and to Congress is useless. But here are a couple to chew on. The Party means nothing. Republicans or Democrats… it makes no difference. They are all complicit.

From the NY Times

  • 2021–693 Mass Shootings
  • 2022 (May) — 62 Murdered in Mass Shootings
  • 2022– 229 Mass Shootings

Millions of citizens across the nation are asking why. Twenty-one people including 19 children are dead. Little kids who were only 7, 8, and 9 years of age… dead.

Politicians across the country send their prayers.

Who cares? Do you care? I don’t. I don’t care one iota what these elected politicians have to say anymore. Their prayers ring hollow. Their words are hollow. They lack substance, meaning.

I blame both Democrats and Republicans.

Some would argue with this comment. But they would be wrong. Over the years both political parties have…

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JD's Stories From the Mountain ~

I write non-fiction stories about My Life, My Journey with Prostate Cancer and Spirituality. My location: a mountain top in the Blue Ridge Mts.