12-29-2012, 05:14 PM
I've been refraining from posting since Newtown because my heart is broken, like everyone else's here, by the realization that the instruments of our avocation have been turned on children. I will not rehash all that has gone before on this thread but I have been reading it all. I understand the fears, and the passion, behind these postings but, I for one, still believe that this is a nation of laws, of checks and balances, of ugly and visceral debate, and of loyal, honorable citizens who can (and must) disagree and yet live together in peace. We are better than this and the glorious experiment that is this nation has survived such storms before, and will again, lest our generation be the one that loses the "last, best hope of earth." And so, +1 to KentuckyBuddha, I concur.

