Update: The Officer Died.

Trib:

The shooting came hours after Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown handed in his resignation papers following Democratic Mayor Lori Lightfoot losing her re-election bid in the Windy City on Tuesday.

Brown served as Chicago’s top cop for two years, a tenure marred by a surge in violent crime and stagnant progress on police reforms — the same issues that led to Lightfoot’s becoming the city’s first incumbent mayor to not be re-elected in four decades.

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No, you can't ban the 2nd Amendment. No, you could never ever get all the guns off the streets of America; there's just too many now.  Assault weapons too.

We, the living generations looking ahead to the future, understand:  we've got to stop worshipping the gun in America as our primary source of power today.  You can't force peace, you can't prohibit weapons.  

We really have to stop arming the world and pretending that Violence and Force will bring about a peaceful world, or country.  It won't.  

We really need to invest billions and billions and billions here at home on social services, and righting what is wrong here.  If not now, when?  If not us, who?

Let's not wait until every American family is touched by random or targeted gun violence.  Let's start working for peace today, by losing the attitude that hard power dominates and wins.  It doesn't.  Ghandi knew that, and MLK followed his example...

Maybe Jimmy Carter's death will help us all to realize Hating the Other (or a past president and those who voted for him) is not really solving the national problems he helped verbally identify that don't even seem to be on the radar screens of our most sheltered elites, who really aren't so worldwise as they believe... 

The answer is:  education, education, education.  Meet people where they are at.  Pay them to learn. Reward them for living and working peacefully.  Get the drugs off the streets by controlling the border better.  Treat the addicted.  Treat people better, especially the poor and the fatherless children.  Don't pay for childcare for the non-need.  Pump money into the communities that need help, with the requirement that Violence ends any rewards.  Pay people who have stable family but no resources.  Pay the workers better.  Pay the caregivers, and those who treat people like people still, and stop giving government "security" money to the wealthiest who don't need it, and seem not to have a philanthropic bone in their bodies.

The lives we save, afterall, might be our own...  Isn't life worth saving?

#Pray for Peace, People Everywhere.  and give a thought to the police officer's family tonight too, maybe, and all the mothers who lose their children to senseless violence daily.  We need to use the power of the pulpit, so to speak, to set a better national example of what life in America is all about.  Because as it is?  Nobody is winning really.