In an impassioned plea, the editor of The Canadian Record took to her column today to shame lawmakers who refuse to stand up to pro-gun lobbyists. Laurie Ezzell Brown, the editorialist in the town of Canadian in the Texas Panhandle, let her anger be known, and the editorial was reprinted this week on The Rural Blog. Brown’s column reads, in part:
"People kill people. Indeed. We kill people. Kind and caring citizens like us say and do nothing, allowing our elected officials to be held hostage to the NRA’s narrow and near-sighted agenda, while our children die in public schools and on college campuses. Well-practiced in our grief, we are silent witnesses to what was once-unthinkable. Of course, we mourn, but we are also numbed, paralyzed by this sense of inevitability, as the details of the latest mass shooting are revealed. We nod like puppets when we are reminded, once again, that guns don’t kill—only people do."
You can read the full column here.