Baby killers on the loose.

Another baby in Michigan shot and only two years old.  How and when did we put the mind set into people that the only way to protect themselves is to carry arms and use them the second they feel  threatened or offended.  It has become a badge of honor to shoot first and think after.  Never mind little children keep getting in the way.  Not the shooter's fault, even if he/she didn't take the time to aim.  And that is something they probably were never taught, among many other things.  Must we wait for this generation to die out?  Is that the solution?  How many more little ones will get hurt or die while we 'wait'?  Just getting the guns off of the streets and the warped mind owners that have and use them is the unbelievable task we face.  How do we start?  I know volunteer people are out there trying but they can't do it without help.  Someone, anyone, don't give up pointing us in the right direction..........................marge

Fireworks and fishing

Playing with fireworks, adults and children is the same as going boating and stacking the life jackets in a corner.  Unconscious people won't float if they aren't wearing their jacket.  If it's not important to you, think of the relative that loves you most..........................marge

Heartfelt hugs

How many times do we give a quick hug out of habit.  They are nice but not the ones that really count.  When you hug someone, put your heart into it.  Give it because you want to, not because you're supposed to.  True hugs can cure unspoken emotional pain, loneliness and suffering.  There isn't a time when all of us haven't needed a true hug.   So get out there and do your job!.................................marge

Children. Silent victims for maybe even decades.

They didn't know it though.  They were never told.  They certainly didn't know to tell anyone.  They didn't have to like it, were embarrassed by it but still, never said a word.  A crime?  Never entered their little minds.  If time doesn't heal it then time may blunt the child's memory, or so it would seem.  And that's the magic word, 'seem'.  I can't answer that.  Just love them and especially talk to them, for their and your sakes.......................marge

I would feel so proud

I watch and listen to the parades of our and our allies soldiers and law enforcement people and how they salute with great pride.  I've always wanted to 'salute'.  I haven't earned the right and that saddens me.  I feel their pride  but I miss the privilege of saluting..............marge

One person. So many dead

How do we and can we, stop this crazed madness?  Mentally deranged, ill, 'mad' sick men and any other 'name' one can think of for these killers.  And yes.  They seem to be men or (boys) if you will.
The whole world is one big bloodbath and now, here in the United States also.  Did not Sandy Hook give us a clue?  When will  the NRA and many many others comprehend that the Second Amendment to the Constitution did NOT mean for people like this latest killer to have and use these weapons at will or even be able to get them without a problem?  They got them from someone or some group.  It shouldn't be too hard to figure out who these 'groups' are should it?  And why can't we go after them and stop them.  Let's do something, anything.  Do these providers feel no guilt, shame?  That in itself shocks me.  We must decide and now.  No more massacres in the name of all that's Holy.  Please.................marge

Murdered child yet again in Michigan

I just got up.  I've seen no TV or listened to the radio.  I did receive a call telling me that the body of the kidnapped child may have been found.  Children are murdered in their homes, their front yards and taken from  in front of their local corner stores and murdered.  There are no more safe havens here.  None.  No safe place to raise our children.  This we thought, was a nice and yes safe midwestern state called Michigan.  A good place to be and raise a family.  Not anymore.  We will go down in the history of Michigan as the  'No safe child State'.  We all are becoming paranoid about young people and babies safety and justly so.  And the worst?  We don't even know what to do, or how to do it.  Sad and frustrating beyond belief.......................................marge