We Can Come Together

There was a mass shooting in El Paso, Texas last week. Another one in Ohio. These are the latest of many in recent years and anti-gun groups are using these to try to take away our Constitutional right to bear arms to defend ourselves. Pro-gun groups are angry and fighting back. The protests go on and on.

This is NOT about that. This is about a story I saw on Good Morning America about a man who had no one except his wife in this world and she was a victim of the shooting in El Paso. When he made arrangements at the funeral home for her he told them to invite all who cared to come because he was afraid it would only be him and the necessary staff in attendance. This happens more often than we we'd like to think - a person is buried without anyone or only a couple people paying their respects.
Well, let me tell you about the most amazing thing that happened. Word got around about this lady and this man. It went viral over the internet. People from all over the country sent flowers and condolences. People came from all over El Paso and the country to attend the funeral. THEY CAME TOGETHER, not as for or against anything. Not as any political party either.There were no protesters outside inappropriately holding signs during a funeral. They showed respect for this man who lost his whole world, love of his life.

How come in our country, where we all came together after 9/11 and cried for all the victims of shootings, can we not put aside our differences instead of protesting at funerals, stomping on one another verbally and physically, calling one another names, can we not just come together and get our country back on a compassionate track towards one another? It shouldn't take a tragedy.