Alright already --I've got another New Year's Resolution:The other day I found myself on the checkout line behind a man with a powerful gun on his hip holster, and political tattoos on on his biceps.I've seen this many times before while shopping, and it made me nervous. From now on, when I see a person carrying a weapon, I am abandoning my shopping cart in the store and walking out. Pronto!Is this person going to open fire? Probably not. But the increasingly incessant tattoo of mass shooting makes me nervous, and with good reason. There was a mass shooting in a supermarket in my town. I have heard what sounded like gunfire (or  was it firecrackers) around town, then read about killings, sometimes on the street in broad daylight, in the press the next day. Look at the board of directors of these corporate chains: most of them are predominantly Republican, and some extremely so.Maybe it's time the folks running these stores did something more to protect the lives of their customers and employees than  placing wreaths in front after the shootings. We need real gun control legislation. The GOP and NRA are standing in the way.Until then, I am not going to wait around in the store to see if the guy with the gun opens fire.

Alright already --I've got another New Year's Resolution:The other day I found myself on the checkout line behind a man with a powerful gun on his hip holster, and political tattoos on on his biceps.I've seen this many times before while shopping, and it made me nervous. From now on, when I see a person carrying a weapon, I am abandoning my shopping cart in the store and walking out. Pronto!Is this person going to open fire? Probably not. But the increasingly incessant tattoo of mass shooting makes me nervous, and with good reason. There was a mass shooting in a supermarket in my town. I have heard what sounded like gunfire (or  was it firecrackers) around town, then read about killings, sometimes on the street in broad daylight, in the press the next day. Look at the board of directors of these corporate chains: most of them are predominantly Republican, and some extremely so.Maybe it's time the folks running these stores did something more to protect the lives of their customers and employees than  placing wreaths in front after the shootings. We need real gun control legislation. The GOP and NRA are standing in the way.Until then, I am not going to wait around in the store to see if the guy with the gun opens fire.

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