Be Safe Out There!
November 02, 2017 12:58 Book stuff | Food for Thought
Somebody has to do something about this! You can’t even go to Walmart anymore! Wednesday night’s shooting in a Walmart near Denver is the latest of avoidable tragedies.
You can’t even go to Walmart anymore! Wednesday night’s shooting in a Walmart near Denver, is the latest of avoidable tragedies.
Of course there was the truck/jogging trail incident in NYC. Shootings in California, Florida, England, and of course Massachusetts. And there were the truck incidents at the Christmas Fair in Germany and in Nice, France. Don’t get me started on the bombings. It is time to say stop!
It is a given that a lot of crazy people are doing the deeds whether they are terrorists or not. Of course you can’t outlaw trucks but you can outlaw machine guns. Do you need a machine gun like the wacko had in Las Vegas? We can’t even outlaw the gun converter he used – bump stocks.
You would have thought after the crazy person shooting at the Republican Congresspeople baseball practice, that our hard-working Representatives would have outlawed something gun oriented but you would be wrong. They must like being targets. Or, they can’t get motivated to do ANYTHING.
I highly resent that Walmarts are a place of potential shootings. This is Americana. We are not safe. Not that I am going to change my shopping choices but at some point, each of us has to say START OUTLAWING GUNS! This is enough and the holidays can’t be punctuated with shootings. Don’t we elect the people who pass the laws? Machine guns are not hunting guns and should not be protected by the Constitution.
Barbe Awalt
Nov 12: 4th Annual Albuquerque Balloon Museum Arts & Crafts Fair, 9am to 5pm
HENRIETTA CHRISTMAS & PAUL RHETTS ("The Basic Genealogy Checklist")
Dec 9: Los Lunas Public Library, 10am
January 6: Hispanic Genealogy Research Center at National Hispanic Cultural Center, Albuquerque, 10am
January 9: El Castillo Living Center, Santa Fe, NM, 7pm
SLIM RANDLES ("The Fly Fisherman's Bucket List")
Nov 9: Bookworks, Rio Grande Blvd, 6pm
JOSEPH SANCHEZ ("Historic Route 66")
Nov 4: Hispanic Genealogy Research Center at National Hispanic Cultural Center, 10am
Nov 18: Bookworks, Rio Grande Blvd, 3pm
JOHN TAYLOR & RICHARD MELZER ("Tragic Trails & Enchanted Journeys" & "Captain Maximiliano Luna")
Nov 11: Treasure House Books, Old Town Plaza, 1pm
Nov 16: Bookworks, Rio Grande Blvd, 6pm
ROBERT TORREZ ("Voices from the Past")
Nov 4: Treasure House Books, Old Town Plaza, 1pm
Nov 30: Bookworks, Rio Grande Blvd, 6pm
ROSS VAN DUSEN ("What Makes the Lightning?", "How the Crocka Dog Came to Be"; and "Lyle Got Stuck in a Tree")
Dec 1: Treasure House Books, Old Town Plaza, 6pm
AT BOOKWORKS
Of course there was the truck/jogging trail incident in NYC. Shootings in California, Florida, England, and of course Massachusetts. And there were the truck incidents at the Christmas Fair in Germany and in Nice, France. Don’t get me started on the bombings. It is time to say stop!
It is a given that a lot of crazy people are doing the deeds whether they are terrorists or not. Of course you can’t outlaw trucks but you can outlaw machine guns. Do you need a machine gun like the wacko had in Las Vegas? We can’t even outlaw the gun converter he used – bump stocks.
You would have thought after the crazy person shooting at the Republican Congresspeople baseball practice, that our hard-working Representatives would have outlawed something gun oriented but you would be wrong. They must like being targets. Or, they can’t get motivated to do ANYTHING.
I highly resent that Walmarts are a place of potential shootings. This is Americana. We are not safe. Not that I am going to change my shopping choices but at some point, each of us has to say START OUTLAWING GUNS! This is enough and the holidays can’t be punctuated with shootings. Don’t we elect the people who pass the laws? Machine guns are not hunting guns and should not be protected by the Constitution.
Barbe Awalt
UPCOMING CALENDAR:
RIO GRANDE BOOKSNov 12: 4th Annual Albuquerque Balloon Museum Arts & Crafts Fair, 9am to 5pm
HENRIETTA CHRISTMAS & PAUL RHETTS ("The Basic Genealogy Checklist")
Dec 9: Los Lunas Public Library, 10am
January 6: Hispanic Genealogy Research Center at National Hispanic Cultural Center, Albuquerque, 10am
January 9: El Castillo Living Center, Santa Fe, NM, 7pm
SLIM RANDLES ("The Fly Fisherman's Bucket List")
Nov 9: Bookworks, Rio Grande Blvd, 6pm
JOSEPH SANCHEZ ("Historic Route 66")
Nov 4: Hispanic Genealogy Research Center at National Hispanic Cultural Center, 10am
Nov 18: Bookworks, Rio Grande Blvd, 3pm
JOHN TAYLOR & RICHARD MELZER ("Tragic Trails & Enchanted Journeys" & "Captain Maximiliano Luna")
Nov 11: Treasure House Books, Old Town Plaza, 1pm
Nov 16: Bookworks, Rio Grande Blvd, 6pm
ROBERT TORREZ ("Voices from the Past")
Nov 4: Treasure House Books, Old Town Plaza, 1pm
Nov 30: Bookworks, Rio Grande Blvd, 6pm
ROSS VAN DUSEN ("What Makes the Lightning?", "How the Crocka Dog Came to Be"; and "Lyle Got Stuck in a Tree")
Dec 1: Treasure House Books, Old Town Plaza, 6pm
AT BOOKWORKS