Short, middle, and long term perspectives
Last week I wrote about the shooting in Atlanta Georgia. Now there was another in Boulder Colorado. Who knows how many others not widely published? ( Gun violence archive ) We have about 4.4% of the world population and own 42% of the guns. In terms of mass shootings, we are far and away #1. (However, Yemen, in terms of population, also has high gun ownership and gun deaths.) Wait, wait, wait, I’m not going to talk about another problem. Last week’s post was rather depressing. We have a target-rich environment for improving things. However, reading about the problems can be overwhelming. Peace Corps Lesson Two great friends in northern Ghana - God bless their homeland So a bit of perspective about how I view things starting with an example as a traditional Peace Corps volunteer. They say it is two years, but you also have about 3 months of training so 27 months, something like 800 days. On the first day of training, I’ll put my expected end date into a countdown app so I kn