Last month I wrote an article addressing the steady rise in number of mass shootings here in the United States. It has gotten so bad that other countries have issued travel warnings to their own citizens about traveling to this country.
Australia and Canada warn that violent and gun-related crimes are much more common here. France warns its citizens which major cities (right down to certain streets) to avoid because of high crime. Uruguay and Venezuela had issued travel warnings in 2019, urging their citizens to postpone travel to America, if possible, because of the increase of acts of violence and indiscriminate hate crimes. The United Kingdom and New Zealand have issued similar warnings.
How embarrassing!
On Saturday, June 3, Franklin police responded to a home after gunshots were reported and discovered 35 year-old Nicole Hughes and her year and a half old daughter, Ariella, dead from gunshots. Another child, five years old, was shot but survived. The suspect, Jamie Bell, father of Ariella and Nicole’s partner, was found about six hours later, dead from a self-inflicted knife wound.
Another town is left stunned, shocked and reeling from such unexpected, but what has come to be an almost daily occurrence of senseless gun violence in America. We just don’t ever know where or when it will happen again. No wonder other countries have issued travel warnings to their citizens who may want to visit our gun crazy nation!
I will remind all our readers again of Gov. Sununu’s recent speech at the NRA Leadership Forum in Indianapolis, Indiana, this past April where he proudly and gleefully proclaimed, “Yeah, well they gave me a red-flag law and I gave them a red veto pen”.
Would this young mother and her baby be alive today if Sununu hadn’t so cavalierly vetoed a law that could have saved their lives? It can’t be said often enough, Sununu needs to be shown the door in ’24!
As a reminder:
If you are experiencing domestic violence, call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233, or go to thehotline.org. All calls are toll-free and confidential. The hotline is available 24/7 in more than 170 languages.