I have no words...

Michigan, let's get our act together because this mockery of a political system is shaming all of us who live here. And normally I would take this news as all else, with a grain of salt, and carry on and continue to vote to the best of my morals. Occasionally I write a letter to some politician or another, but this is an open cry to whoever will listen.

Last night Michigan's congress was in session until the early morning passing laws. Which is generally how that works, drafts are presented, debated, and they either become a law or get reworked. Now though, in a massive move, Michigan has passed the strictest anti-abortion law in the United States, a new emergency manager law which which strips the rights of voters to recall politicians and rather grants that right to replace elected officials by emergency managers, eliminated a tax that funds school districts, and oh, one more thing, it gave approval to expand the carrying of concealed weapons inside of schools, churches, child care centers, and stadiums.

To carry a concealed weapon inside of a school, church, child care center, and stadiums.

Inside of a school, church, child care center, and stadiums.

SCHOOLS, CHURCHES, CHILD CARE CENTERS, AND STADIUMS.

I'm sorry one more time? Oh yeah, I can totally get behind that because honestly, I've never felt safe in my child's daycare anyway.

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See what I did there? It's a joke because I don't have a child. And as of 9:14 this morning eighteen parents don't have children either.

There is a God of Irony and she is mocking all of us right now with the passing of these outlandish laws just compounded by the massive school shooting.

A massive school shooting in a grade school. With nearly twenty elementary students having been killed by an armed shooter, don't we all just feel so much more safe? Because it's now legal to carry our concealed weapons in schools.

Technically, that man, if he were in Michigan, would have been fully protected by Michigan law up until the point in which he brutally murdered twenty-seven people. Eighteen of them kids carrying lunch boxes and looking forward to recess. Looking forward to Christmas. To the rest of their lives.

I don't care, truly do not care, if you are pro-life, if you give a damn or not about the abrupt and legal take over of our local-level political systems, or if you have any investment in Michigan's educational system. But if anyone who reads this feels what happened today in Connecticut was in ANY WAY justified, please feel free to walk off a cliff. I'll be there to give you a little supportive shove.

This should not be possible, so much violence, brutality. The pain, the sorrow of the parents. I have no other words today. They have all drained out of me in a puddle of disgust and pity. I'm too tired to scoop them back up.

My thoughts are with the families of the victims today and into the future.