What one person is doing.

Facebook is a mess of sad posts. People dealing in different ways. No ways really wrong per say. Seeing things about how god not being in schools caused this some how though just seems so negative and hurtful. Posts about teachers with automatic weapons in other war torn countries seem just so wrong to me. I find myself feeling like there just needs to be room to grieve this horrible action and the 27 lives gone and many more effected by the school shooting. Some people are dealing in very practical ways like this women who is a friend of a friend. I asked her if I could post her photo and story and she said she wants it shared and so here it is. I am posting it to share her story, it is not up for debate though please.

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By Song Hill:

In honor of the families who lost their children today, and in honor of the people who were innocently killed today and in previous shootings, I turned my gun in to the Beaverton police station to be destroyed.

I’ve had my fun with it and I will always be attracted to guns. But I don’t want to own something that represents pain and destruction anymore. I don’t want to be liable f

or potential harm it could cause. It’s been stolen once before and luckily didn’t fall into the wrong hands. I never would have lived it down if I knew my own firearm killed someone else.

As a child, my neighbor tried to shoot my friends and I while we were playing in the street because he thought it would be fun while he was cracked out of his mind. I believe it was a .22 judging by the damage done to my neighbor’s mailbox. It is scary as a 7 year old child to hear your neighbor’s psycho laugh and bullets whizzing by your head and missing by inches as you jump in the bushes for cover, wondering if your friends are ok and feeling guilty that you’re fleeing instead of helping them find cover. Luckily he had horrible aim. He was successful in shooting my cat.

My mother’s closest brother got shot in the head by accident on a shooting trip. It was a .22. He didn’t seek help because he thought he would get in trouble for playing with firearms. Somehow he walked home. He died hours later. He was barely in his teens. I never met him, but it would have been nice to know him. From what I hear he was a wonderful person. A gun, no matter if it’s big or small, can still cause irreversible damage.

I think it’s time laws get changed so that for once owning a firearm is harder to do than owning a car. Other gun owners seem to think that others are blaming the gun. We all know it’s the person who stands behind the trigger. When a child bops himself on the head with a hard toy, the toy gets taken away because the child didn’t know how to handle the toy. Not because the toy jumped up and hit the kid. The child doesn’t get the toy back until he or she is fully trusted to not injure them self or others. Such should be the same for guns.

Please share this with friends or family. Awareness needs to be raised. To all the victims and their families, Rest in Peace.