(AP) — A gold plaque hangs next to a bullet hole in the Sikh temple in Oak Creek,Wis.,where a lone gunman killed six worshippers and injured three others last August. It is engraved with the words,“We Are One.”
“It frames the wound,” says Pardeep Kaleka,son of former temple president Satwant Singh Kaleka,who died in the massacre. “The wound of our community,the wound of our family,the wound of our society.”
In the past week,that wound has been ripped open with shocking ferocity.
In what has become sickeningly familiar,gunmen opened fire on innocents in what should be the safest of places – first,at a shopping mall in Oregon,and then,unthinkably,at an elementary school in Connecticut.
Once again there were scenes of chaos as rescuers and media descended on the scene. Once again there were pictures of weeping survivors clutching one another,of candlelight vigils and teddy bears left as loving memorials. And once again a chorus of pundits debated gun control and violence as society attempted to make sense of the senseless.
Read More at the blaze.com . By Jonathon M. Seidl.
Photo credit:Gregory Wild-Smith (Creative Commons)
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Beware,if the pos potus doesn't get his way the killings will rise drastically. He wants to ban guns so badly,he can taste it,after all you can't take over a country if the people are armed. What happened to the eyewitness reports of two shooters?? Maybe a government guy making sure everything went well &then cleaning up the mess by the 'suicide??'of the 'lone'gunman. Also,in the Colorado theater shooting,eyewitnesses said there were two shooters,but it was also hushed up. I don't think obummer cares how many people die,the more the merrier,as long as he becomes king.