Yesterday I thought that despite all the rhetoric nothing would come of the Newtown massacre. Despite the emotional outpouring emotions dissipate and time moves on. But today I'm not so sure.
It won't be men that drive this change. While men will be participants it won't be men that drive the changes in gun laws, and yes, there will be changes in gun laws. But it will be women who drive it.
I don't know why. Maybe it's the fact that every child is actually physically connected, and lives inside their mother from inception. Maybe it's the fact that mothers physically nurse and are the first people to bond with their children. Maybe it's the fact that she is the one who feeds you first. But the fact remains that for most people the bond between mother and child is inexplicable and unbreakable. Now the worst possible nightmare for any mother and therefore in this scenario, for all mothers have happened. An occurrence all too common for mothers, dropping their young ones, their vulnerable, off at school, their first socializing experience, their first educational experience, resulted in death, massacre, by the hands of a madman armed by both a gun and the law.
Just as mother's decided that drunk driving must stop. Just as mother's decided that breast cancer research must be funded so mothers will decide that the gun laws must be changed.
This change will happen because both Republican and Democratic women will unite forming an unbreakable bond that supersedes party, the bond of motherhood. "In Rana there was a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not." -- Matthews 2:18.
Know that the women of Newtown and the women of America will not be comforted until they change the laws because until all children are safe their consciences will not rest in God's eternal grace.
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