Gun violence. Might it not make at least a small difference if each time the president stood before the press he would say something like this: "today in our great nation there were more than ten thousand (or 20,000 or even 100,000) acts of kindness shown toward our fellow citizens. Thousands of teachers in our country today placed a hand on a child's shoulder and said to them; you're special, you're important, you can do this. Tens of thousands of volunteers across our land today spent time helping the sick, the homeless, the hurting, the abused. Literally millions of Americans today helped lift their fellowman by simply offering them a smile. This and many other acts of kindness took place today, and will be repeated tomorrow, and every day to come in our great nation. And so my fellow Americans I would like to say thank you. Thank you for being the great Americans, the kind and generous citizens, the loving people that you are. God bless America."
I know that this author certainly doesn't have any easy answers to the problem of gun violence. Or inner city violence or school violence, or domestic violence or any other senseless violence. There are no easy answers. But does it help any to elevate these acts of violence to the level where all the acts of generosity and good will is ignored. Remember the millions of daily good deeds mentioned eariler? To ignore gun violence would be foolish of our president. Equally foolish is to ignore the overwhelmingly kind and gentle and godly nation that we actually are.
