No new chapter this week. I haven't the heart for it. Instead I offer the following...
18 children are dead.
18 families have been destroyed.
We should all be ashamed.
Tragedies like this have happened before and will happen again unless we do something about it.
Regardless of your opinion or point of view on the subject there is one thing that cannot be denied: something is very wrong here. This is an event that simply should not have been possible. I don't claim to know every facet of the issue or to know for certain what should be done. But it is very clear that something needs to change.
It's time to stop talking about personal safety and time to start talking about everyone's safety. It's time to stop talking about personal freedom. It's time to stop talking about your rights.
Because those 18 children had rights too. They had the right to live. They had the right to grow up and be happy and find love and make a life for themselves. That right was taken from them.
The parents of those children had the right not to face a lifetime without their children, a lifetime of empty rooms and wounded hearts that will never fully heal.
We have to change. The cost of not doing so it too high.
My heart goes out to all the families marked by this tragedy. May they find the strength to see them through this dark time.
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