We have to examine ourselves in our hearts and ask ourselves what is important. This will not happen unless the American people demand it. If parents and teachers, police officers and pastors, if hunters and sportsmen, if responsible gun owners, if Americans of every background stand up and say enough—we’ve suffered too much pain and care too much about our children to allow this to continue—then change will come. That’s what it’s going to take.
It’s an axiom of group dynamics that no circle of friends can remain a truly cohesive unit unless a handful of them are in love with each other in some twisted fashion or other.
So much worrying. All I do is worry. Mostly about money, about also about things like having clean tupperware for tomorrow’s lunch and whether swallowing all the passive-aggressive things I want to say but can’t is slowly poisoning my insides.