The Internet has exploded with half of its population calling for expanded gun control and the other half quoting statistics and opinions of exactly why doing just that would destroy the entire world...
I fight every fiber of my being to just stand down and not alienate people I otherwise care for and respect.
I have my opinion; oh yes, I do...
Throw that into a blog and let the chips fall where they may, that is how I want to react. I hear an old hippie Pastor asking me quietly, in my brain, if plastering this contrary opinion all over my corner of the Internet is worth more to me than keeping people in my life that disagree with it.
Will I silence my opinion to keep them?!?
I'm tempted to infer that I had no difficulty at all, in answering that question, but I struggled with it terribly, weighing my need to be " right" over all else.
I so want to be right...
My answer was simple, look for something to distract me from the silly circus I printed tickets to; find something else that might actually add a tiny positive to a terribly divisionary and useless battle...
I tried to find that place, but instead, I found myself in a conversation today, that troubled me to no end.
An eighty year old man I know kept repeating to me that it was a " gay club" that was shot up.
I told him I knew that...
" But it was a gay club", he kept repeating, with a strange smile,almost as if that made what happened ok....
Hearing how those words were spoken, and all that was inferred by them, made me want to completely ignore my Pastors advice about offending people with my opinion...
As I began to open my mouth, angered by the ignorance speaking before me, I understood that sometimes we must confront what we disagree with.....
Then I looked deep into his eyes, and I realized that nothing I could say would change almost a century of programming...
I wanted to argue anyway.
I closed my eyes and took a deep breath;
For a completely different reason, a day after tragic violence,
my heart broke again...
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