The Inquisitive Skink

Warning....this is hard to watch. A very sad commentary on our times.

Quoting the Washington Post article Children Under Fire :  "In total, an estimated 8,400 children were hit, and more died — 1,458 — than in any year since at least 2010. That death toll exceeds the entire number of U.S. military fatalities in Afghanistan this decade." "Among high-income nations, 91 percent of children younger than 15 who were killed by gunfire lived in the United States." Stop the endless promotion of guns and gun culture. Please.

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children… This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron." — Former U.S. President, Dwight D. Eisenhower, in a speech on April 16, 1953