Potomac Correspondence: An Assassin’s Bullet and Freedom

I arrived at the elementary school Christina Green, the nine-year-old primary school girl who lost her life in the Tuscon random shooting incident, had attended. The fence surrounding the school building overflowed with notes written jointly by friends mourning her death.

“To my best friend, Christina. Do you remember this picture? It is from our first sleepover.”

Two young girls are standing shoulder-to-shoulder, smiling sweetly with aged facial expressions. Their expressions are a little bit drained, telling the story of the young girls’ excitement at their first sleepover as friends.

More and more, the fun night at times was probably a night that brought tears to friends’ eyes. It seems they are holding the same thoughts, and many parents dried tears in front of the fence.

And yet, what is unexpected is that the gun control laws are lagging. In this incident, six people became victims, and the woman of the House who is considered the Democratic Party’s hope has fallen to an assassin’s bullet.

At the victims memory assembly, the somber Democratic Party members who met by chance said, “We should place trust in the Second Amendment.” The text is for the safety of the free country; the rule is that the right for citizens to carry guns must not be violated.

Regretting the loss of the young lady, we shed tears and yet there is a thorough resistance to the obstruction of “freedom.” In order to understand this undercurrent in America’s bloodstream, I have the feeling that even more “observation and collecting data” is essential.