Hell must be running out of ‘special places’ by now

It takes a special kind of slime to berate, bully, slander and shame a group of high school students who hid in closets and under desks for six and a half minutes while a madman with an assault rifle strafed their school with hundreds of bullets and murdered 17 of their classmates and friends.

No human being should ever have to endure such trauma outside of war, let alone be mocked and insulted afterward for speaking up about the experience and asking their country and its leaders for help.

You don’t even have to agree with them to show a little compassion after the life-altering event they went through at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Valentine’s Day 2018. Yet compassion is the last human emotion you’ll ever get from today’s National Rifle Association and its army of lobbyists, propagandists, YouTube commentators and pocketed politicians.  

What we’re seeing from the NRA and its right-wing backers is highly disturbing. I can’t think of another word strong enough to describe my revulsion at the way these children are being attacked. Every respectable member of the NRA who joined that organization for the right reasons should cancel his or her membership tomorrow, then band together and start a new organization for responsible gun owners. After all, the NRA was founded in 1871 to teach marksmanship and gun safety, not to promote the sale and use of military-style weapons at the expense of human lives.

Today it’s a well-funded lobbying group that seems to have forgotten all about gun safety under the guise of defending the Second Amendment, an addition to our Constitution that was ratified in 1791 to make sure our American colonists could operate a muzzleloader in case the British ever decided they wanted their country back.

And why the hell is the NRA tax-exempt?  

I don’t know how much they pay Dana Loesch and her compatriots to promote the NRA and to place its agenda ahead of the need to keep Americans safe, but it can’t be enough to justify the words that spew from her face when she threatens those evil gun control advocates with “the clenched fist of truth.”

I hope for her sake that her two sons never have to face the terror that Emma Gonzalez faced that horrible day at her Parkland, Florida, school. I read on the internet that the Loesch children were both home-schooled, but someday they might go to a movie theater or a dance club or an outdoor concert or even a church where a killer is lurking, waiting to kill as many people as possible with a weapon of mass destruction.

If that happens, rest assured they'll have my thoughts and prayers.

Until then, hell is no doubt preparing another of its “special places” for Dana Loesch and the other so-called adults who are getting their kicks by beating up on young children whose only “crime” is asking their government to make their lives a little safer…in the hope they can live long enough to actually become adults some day.

It makes me wonder how many of those “special places” hell will have left after this.