Pink roses[/caption]Carol Forsloff---It's the holiday season, and as the day closes on December 13, 2013, it is more than a Friday 13th. It is another day of a school shooting and a reminder that in America the days are filled with guns and roses.
Everyday somewhere in America someone is killed or injured with a gun. Today the shooting occurred in Colorado, another student, another school and another day when people debate gun rights, the Second Amendment, while mothers gather roses for the graves of lost children, friends and family, those who have been killed by guns.
Today the shooter turned the gun on himself after wounding one of the students at Arapahoe High School in Centennial Colorado. The pattern of school violence continues, wave upon wave that has continued since the mass killing in Columbine in 1999.
Today a family will plan the burial of another individual whose anger, resentment and irrational behavior led to the act of violence that almost killed the students at the high school as a teacher who was the shooter's planned target left the school before becoming another victim in an array of school shootings. This happened even as people commemorated the first anniversary yesterday of the massacre of teachers and students at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
Guns and roses meet again in America as Christmas approaches even as the songs of peace and love fill the air. The roses will wilt on the graves of the innocent and those who kill or wound them, even as life goes on for those who hold their gun rights more dearly than the flowers whose beauty decorate the tombstones and not the gardens where they belong.
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