We Wish to Inform you That Soon, Your Children Will be Murdered in School:

I was going to write today about an incomprehensible opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal about Stakeholder Capitalism. Then Texas happened and nothing else seems important.

I was on social media today, looking to see what people would say about the latest massacre of these children in Texas.

There is a subset of us in the country who are obsessed with guns. And, no matter how many children are killed in schools, that subset will fight against anything that will stop this. I’m not going to try to persuade them of the errors of their ways. It’s useless. They won’t budge. I don’t know if it’s because they don’t care about other people’s children or, if just being in the conservative tribe requires them to always support ideas about gun control because the tribe matters more than anything else. I really don’t know. I don’t understand it. I am a gun owner, and I would gladly accept ANY law or regulation that would stop this carnage. They won’t accept anything that helps. And the politicians who depend on their votes, who are more interested in power than service to our country will continue to do nothing to stop this.

So, it seems, we all must simply accept this. This notion that we all should own guns will always continue to be more important than the lives of those who are massacred. 19 children and two teachers this time. So many more over the years and so many more coming because…well hell. I don’t know why. I wish someone could tell me why this is all ok. For many of us, these tragedies are totally acceptable, just as long as nothing gets between this group and their guns.

The following aren’t my words, they are some things I’ve heard today and some things that perhaps, we should all consider:

“A country that places a priority on passing laws forcing women to have children but refuses to pass laws to keep them safe is a country full of mothers screaming for change.”

“it takes a monster to kill children. But to watch monsters kill children again and again and do nothing isn’t just insanity – it’s inhumanity. Our truth is, one nation under guns. What might be if only we tried. What might become if only we’d listen.” Amanda Gorman.

After Sandy Hook we (Some of us anyway) said: Never again! Then we did nothing and we let 3,865 individual mass shootings happen in in the US (That’s not the number of people who were killed, that’s the number of mass shooting incidents. I was going to look up the number of people but started to feel sick to my stomach).

It’s insane how the only notable change since Sandy Hook is that kids are now formally trained to hide, barricade doors, fight, or run for their lives. That was the solution (not that we shouldn’t know how to do those things…but) To literally put the responsibility on children to figure out and to them just wish them luck…

Some will respond to this and tell me why I’m wrong and why more guns is the only answer. I don’t need to hear that because I’m not trying to persuade those of you who think this, to change. I’m devastated. Not only because of this tragedy but because…nothing will change. Our children will continue to be killed. I will hurt, people like me will hurt, and then, those who think that guns are not the problem and more guns are the solution, will continue, at all costs, to stand in the way of us saving our children.