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Church shootings and candle lights vie beneath 'Bible black' skies

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Maybe he’s right when he declares we bring much misery on ourselves by protecting gun producers from things such as lawsuits, and that beat down men like Adkisson have been their own worst enemy by opposing progressives, though I can’t prove it. I’m not near smart enough. If only those who pontificate on the need to broaden the reach of the Second Amendment beyond any reasonable measure, would own up that they’re not that smart either, I’d feel better about my fellow citizens.

I write this not as prescriptive of anything, however, only as a word of mourning for Greg McKendry, 60, and Linda Kraeger, 61, for all their friends and relations and for something more that deserves mourning. That’s the lost magic and tranquility that never will be fully redeemed at TVUUC, even by walls of flowers and candlelight services and other tokens of love and empathy.

Something was lost on Sunday for many of us who live in this pretty how town with up so floating many bells down. Something that begs one to ponder, darling, busted statues and broken lives and to wonder just what Mr. Death thinks of his blue-eyed boy who could break onetwothreefourfive pigeons justlikethat….

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Don Williams is a prize-winning columnist, short story writer, freelancer, and the founding editor and publisher of New Millennium Writings, an annual anthology of literary stories, essays and poems. His awards include a National Endowment for the (more...)
 
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