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Another Mass Shooting-How Do We Stop the Carnage?

A Tragic Day in Buffalo, NY

Dan Pfeifer
4 min readMay 20, 2022
Photo by Natalie Chaney on Unsplash

Welcome back. I soon will post more garden updates and bird photos. And updates on my Hügelkultur garden bed.

This post is a little different for me. I can’t help it. This has to end. As a country we have to do something about these mass shootings. How do you feel about this?

Hardly a day goes by without a shooting of some kind. Really? Is this the norm in other countries? I seriously doubt it but I will do some research. Why is it so prevalent here in the U.S.? Are there just too many guns too easily acquired?

This country seems to become more and more divided as time goes by. Are issues such as racism, abortion, and gun control laws to blame, or is it caused by individuals such as Donald Trump? Many may disagree on the so called “Trump affect”, but I believe it has some merit. For example, ever since he labelled Covid-19 the “China virus”, attacks on Asian people here in the U.S. have sky-rocketed. Coincidence? I think not.

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Is this division to blame for all the shootings? I’m not sure. It surely doesn’t help things. This last event in Buffalo, NY was definitely a hate crime, as the suspect specifically targeted blacks (he drove 3…

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Dan Pfeifer
Dan Pfeifer

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