Enough is Enough

The senseless murder of children doesn’t just affect the victims and their families. It affects each and every one of us.

This is not about gun control or our rights although that is an issue for sure. It is about passing laws and enforcing those laws to protect all citizens. We need to be prepared and aware of behaviors that is not healthy and then take action and don’t just let it go.

We can’t possibly know exactly who, when, where or how evil will attack. There are just too many variables.

But with knowledge and being aware of our surroundings, seeing the red flags and taking action then and there instead of letting them go unnoticed is a start.

Mental illness is a disease. We can’t always know who is suffering from this illness. We can’t make people take medication. This is not about singling people out either and making them targets of bullying or mistreatment or stereotype. Not all mental health issues are violent there is a fine line and we must tread lightly. But by educating teachers and students to be more aware of the indicators of a threat and those who could become a potential threat I believe would help. Not to make them targets but to be aware that when comments or threats are heard that they be addressed at that moment and not just ignore it. It should not just be passed on to someone else. Those who are in authority need to step up to the plate and take charge.

Stop complacency. Put together a special task force of teachers, kids and parents, who are trained for indicators. Guns are not to be used irresponsibly or by those who have the potential to hurt others. There has to be a plan in place. There should be a protocol and educating people so that they are more responsible to have respect for weapons that have the capacity to wound, injure and kill this must be a priority.

This nightmare has gone on, and on, and on, with no solutions. It becomes debates about our rights and to ban or not to ban guns. It becomes an issue of talking about the challenge and never taking action for a positive solution.

This evil affects everyone it can happen at any time and any place. Time for talk and debates is long past. We are called American’s. Our ancestor’s fought and died for our freedoms and for our rights. They escaped slavery and tyranny and set up laws and a government to be for the people and by the people; because we are the people. We are the ones who must not sit quietly by and watch children’s lives be snuffed out over and over again. We must take action.

We must come together as a Nation. ‘One Nation Under God.’ It took one woman to have prayer taken out of schools. Where is that woman today? She has long since died.

This United States…We Americans…have an obligation and a duty to take a stand against violence and determine how we can solve this PROBLEM! How many more children must die…? How many more children must face severe trauma and paralyzing fear about going to school because it is not a safe place…? How long will we as American’s hang our heads and sit on our laurels and just keep talking and talking about what to do instead of coming up with a plan and work together to end the horror of murder in our schools!

Come on America! We must come together in unity. It’s time to be assertive, and proactive, in a healthy and organized stand against EVIL. Evil is the enemy.

Stomping out evil is determined by each of us taking the responsibilities. Our Children are worth more than our hot-headed debates. Our children are perishing…Our children are open targets for anyone at any time. What are we going to do about it?

Stop talking and Take Action!

Positive action:

First Pray…and pray and pray…

Come up with a solution now.

Work together in decisive and constructive ways.

Be proactive.

Recruit teachers, students and parents to be trained in Mental illness.

Be alert and know what the Red Flags are to look for on a daily basis.

Funding for camera’s and metal detectors.

Funding for Special Task Force (STF) within the schools (For Teachers, Administrators and Students.)

Make the STF, police and security aware of potential threats and actual threats.

Make the task force aware of fire drills and even possible shooting drills.

All I’m saying is that these kinds of things are not going to just go away. But if we sit by and do nothing more fatalities are going to happen. Do you want to come home one day and hear that YOUR, child, was just murdered? Or do you want to DO SOMETHING about it?

We must protect our children!

Thank you for your time and I pray that the shooting in Parkland won’t be just another tragedy that is talked about and seen worldwide then dies down and nothing changes.

~Marla Shaw O’Neill February 18, 2018

Romans 8:31 New King James Version (NKJV)

God’s Everlasting Love

What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

1 Timothy 2:2-3 The Message (MSG) Simple Faith and Plain Truth

The first thing I want you to do is pray. Pray every way you know how, for everyone you know. Pray especially for rulers and their governments to rule well so we can be quietly about our business of living simply, in humble contemplation. This is the way our Savior God wants us to live.