April 20th, 2009 is the tenth anniversary of the tragic events that occurred at the Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. Last September, I
was able to visit the Columbine Memorial, behind the high school, and it was truly beautiful and inspiring.
Ten years later now, we remain a violent society, and within the past years, further gun related tragedies have occurred... at Virginia Tech in April 2007, the shooting at Binghamton, N.Y in April, 2009, the death of three policeman in Pittsburgh, the drug violence across the border in Mexico...
Not a day goes by when it becomes evident of another shooting somewhere in the U.S.A. Even more astonishing, thousands of people are flocking to gun shows across the country fearful of the likelihood that President Obama will implement some kind of harsher gun laws.
"No one has the right to take my guns away"...said the young man who shot and killed the three policeman in Pittsburgh. Yet, what about the many, innocent victims of those shootings who have a right to live?
With the growing sense of isolation of people in the world, many connected only in cyberspace by detached electronic devices, where one simply has to "twitter" these days...Could the tragic events of Columbine High School happen in YOUR neighborhood?