Did you hear about the horrible school shooting in Australia?
Or the one in Scotland?
What about the one in British Columbia?
And of course the massacre in Belgium?
If you say you did, you’re either lying or delusional. Kids in those countries and most others have parents who love them enough to make sure they’re safe from being shot when they leave the house.
Not here. In this country our great solution to school shootings is to say there should be even more guns, these in the hands of the teachers. In this country conservatives are willing to go to hell and back to make sure children are born. Once they’re born, though, they’re on their own.
Both of my children were born in France and emigrated to the U.S. with their mother at a very young age. France makes sure children get proper nutrition and child care in the early years. The French have this nutty un-American idea that children are the nation’s future, indeed the nation’s treasure.
There was another American school shooting today, at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. I’ve never been to Uvalde, but it’s about 70 miles from Bandera, where I spent 11 wonderful weeks in the summer of 2010.
The shooter was an 18-year-old who had been bullied in high school. Apparently some “good guys with guns” tried to stop him from going into the school, but he had body armor and a rifle and nobody stopped him till 18 elementary school kids were dead or dying.
Of course the Texas attorney general said the solution was to arm teachers.
All I can say is, what an asshole.
No more goofy solutions, no more thoughts and prayers. We either care about keeping our children alive and letting them grow up or we don’t.
The MAGA-ts and the gun nuts and the others like them are killing our country.
The human race will be all right, though. Once we’ve killed off our children in the name of the Holy Second Amendment, the countries that give a damn about their children will still be around.
So there will be a future.
We just might not be part of it.