Thursday Reads - 3/14/13 - 90 Days from Sandy Hook, an Old Winner, and a Great Dad!

Addicting Info: Just 90 Days Since Sandy Hook, 2,680 People Have Died Due To Firearms In The US


While people die, Congress and the NRA fiddle! 90 days 2,680 deaths to many! In the words of Bob Dylan:

Yes, how many deaths will it take till he knows
That too many people have died ?
The answer my friend is blowin' in the wind
The answer is blowin' in the wind.

The ninety day marker gives us time to pause to see what has happened, what is happening now and what we can expect to happen as the subject of gun violence is on the table. Since the Sandy Hook tragedy, over 2680 Americans have been killed by gun violence. At least 181 of them were under 20 years old…46 of them under 12 years old. There have been over 2050 deaths in 2013 alone insuring that, yet again we will have over 10,000 Americans killed by gun violence. And that does not include the near 20,000 that will die by suicide with firearms.

and here's the important part of this article!! Emphasis is mine!

Nobody is talking about confiscation of guns, of gutting the Second Amendment, of eliminating the 300 million guns that are privately owned in this country. What is being proposed is simply regulating processes that occur with gun ownership, to get stolen guns off the streets, to keep folks who can’t legally buy guns from running down to the nearest gun show and diving into the copious gun buffets to get all they want. Complete story

Now here are two feel good article

First one for us older folks!

Al Jazeera: Alaska dog-sled race crowns oldest winner

From Al Jazeera Reporter Cath Turner:

The so-called Last Great Race on Earth has crowned its oldest winner.
At 53, Mitch Seavey became the oldest person to win the Iditarod dog-sled race in Alaska.
After nine days and seven hours, Seavey pulled ahead of Aliy Zerkle, his nearest competitor, just after in the early morning hours of Tuesday.



and then there's Iram Leon a front-runner for "Dad of the Year"  sure beats sitting at home feeling sorry for yourself which is probably what  I would be doing. It takes a special kind of person to do what he is doing!!

Huffington Post:Iram Leon, Dad With Brain Cancer, Wins Marathon While Pushing Daughter In Stroller (VIDEO)

Iram Leon was the first runner to cross the finish line at the Gusher Marathon in Beaumont, Texas on Saturday with a time of 3:07:35. But Leon, who has brain cancer, insists that his 6-year-old daughter was technically the winner -- he pushed her in a stroller the entire 26-mile race.

"Here sore, reflecting and grateful, I still can’t believe that I won a marathon. Well, I came in second behind Kiana," Leon wrote on his blog.

Iram Leon was the first runner to cross the finish line at the Gusher Marathon in Beaumont, Texas on Saturday with a time of 3:07:35. But Leon, who has brain cancer, insists that his 6-year-old daughter was technically the winner -- he pushed her in a stroller the entire 26-mile race.

[caption id="attachment_51" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Iram and Kiana cross the finish line. (AP Photo/The Enterprise, Randy Edwards)[/caption]

"Here sore, reflecting and grateful, I still can’t believe that I won a marathon. Well, I came in second behind Kiana," Leon wrote on his blog.

Leon, now 32, was diagnosed with a Grade 2 Diffuse Astrocytoma in Nov. 2010, shortly after his 30th birthday. "Life goes downhill fast after you turn 30,” he joked in an interview with The Huffington Post. Doctors have told Leon that he is not going to beat the cancer, but their goal is for him to live until he's 40. Read More

Let's hope he makes it until then and then some!!