To raise children in America is to know that devastated parents can offer up photos of their sweet, dead children as an offering and a warning and a clarion call for change and mostly nothing will change, writes HeidiStevens13.
Fear that one day your child, the person you love and know with an intimacy that can’t be captured in words, will die in a hail of bullets at church, at a concert, at the movies, at the grocery store, at a party, at a park, on the sidewalk, at school.At school. Always and especially at school, which is a perversely common killing ground for American children.
To raise children in America is to know that devastated parents can offer up photos of their sweet, dead children as an offering and a warning and a clarion call for change — in front of Congress, in news stories, on Twitter, in mailings, during press conferences, to anyone who will watch, to anyone will listen — and mostly nothing will change.Every year, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data, more than 3,500 children and teens are shot and killed in the United States.
The shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, where 19 children and two adults were killed, is this year’s 27th school shooting. It took place 10 days after a white supremacist walked into a Tops grocery store in Buffalo, New York, and killed 10 people. In between the two incidents, two people died and seven were injured during a mass shooting outside a Chicago McDonald’s.
To raise children in America is to feel abandoned by the leaders and policymakers who could actually disrupt that routine. Who could follow the lead and leverage the labor of Everytown For Gun Safety, Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, Sandy Hook Promise, March for Our Lives, the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence and the thousands upon thousands of angry, heartbroken, determined Americans who refuse to believe we have to live like this.
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