"The United States is arguably the greatest of all nations. But a child is arrested here for a violent crime every five minutes. Guns on the streets of the United States take the life of one of our youths every hour and a half. It chilled me to think of how many parents were wearing the same cloak of grief I was. Where were our priorities?
We have such wealth, such ability, such achievement. Each week we push back daunting frontiers, We look to the ends of the universe through our telescopes. We stretch technology to communicate instantaneously anywhere in the world. We penetrate the secrets of the atom, the depths of the ocean. We design and build massive construction projects in miraculous time frames. We transplant organs and end Cold Wars. With some readjustment in priorities, couldn't we add , 'stop kids from killing other kids' to our impressive list of accomplish-ments? Wouldn't it be worth trying?
So much of the world looks to America as an example, a leader. Is this killing the example we want to set, the leadership we want to offer?"
Quote from A Father's Journey from Murder to Forgiveness, Aim's Bard
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