Save the Children

Save the Children, originally uploaded by ujima.

Talked to friends who went to the capital for the rally to urge
the passage of a new gun law. They were encouraged by
the talk on the busses to and from Harrisburg, But they knew
they were preaching to the choir.

In Harrisburg, they were dismayed when they got to speak to
those of the 300 NRA pickets who would talk to them
not so much because of their views but because of their
strident refusals to have a give and take conversation.
Is *anyone* listening?