Throughout the corridors of many state Capitols, families are sharing emotionally gutting stories of tragedy caused by mass school shootings with the hope that revealing their trauma will convince lawmakers on either side of the political aisle to reconsider firearm policies.
The fact that ‘families upended by school shootings’ is a significant enough demographic to be relevant in us politics, is saying something of itself.
Getting murdered by guns is the number one cause of children’s deaths in the United States of America.
Evidence of this statement
Just sad, isn’t it? Even more sad that we don’t do anything about it.
Did we stop the thoughts and prayers?
Guns are just too ingrained in the core of American culture for this ever to be fixed. It would probably be easier to just abolish the entire school system than it would be to implement any meaningful gun control policy.
The rest of the Western world doesn’t have the same issue because we view guns totally differently.