Conjecturally, could it be drugs, and moreover, could any one of them if not all, be packing a firearm? Your guess is as good as mine, but suffice it to say, an argument could be made that they shouldn’t be there to begin with. I’m struggling with emotions deep in my soul—trepidation, angst, disgust, displeasure, but certainly not sympathy. It’s my contention that our communities that have not properly address the issue of gun control, drug eradication and other measures to combat crime attributed to gang activity; as a result people are suffering a prolonged illness, and being held hostage to an inability to make streets safer.
As I close this piece, I’m convinced that gun laws must me addressed and enacted in congress and on a local level. I have a passioned plea: if you are a parent and have a child that may be of age to carry a gun, please take control and allow parental fortitude to guide you in attempts to check your child; if you’re in the 16-25 age group, then you are statistically effected by this whole phenomena that’s targeting you generically...be instrumental in cajoling your peers to cease and desist; if you’re older than the latter, then you fall into a group just below midlife and should be mentoring or endeavoring to be role models; and like me, who can be considered a senior citizen I’m ranting and raving for SOMEONE if not all of you doing what needs to be done. What plan do you have to become involved? Will that plan compel you to move forward or step backward in a passive stance? The time is now and the future is in our hands! Are you with me?
Alvin C. Romer is a contributor to several of the REal Life Real FAith MAgazines including Men of Faith