.@NRA lobbyist response to the end card on #ThisIsUs suggesting Americans get involved in gun violence prevention after the mass shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue. She suggests the Holocaust wouldn't have happened if Jewish people had been armed - a standard NRA talking point.
The past two hours have been our regular reminder of how close we always are to #gunviolence.
Shots fired on the block at the end of #ThisIsUs followed by police knocking on our door and The Wife having to detail events.
The front of our house is now a crime scene.
For the handful of people NOT inured to #gunviolence who asked how we were, we are ok. Someone is dead however and it is the third killing in front of our house in four years, so it's pretty unnerving.
I am frankly shocked that this tweet didn't go viral. Then again, maybe not.
Until gun violence in black neighborhoods like mine matters as much as in white neighborhoods there is never going to be any kind of resolution of America's gun problem.