Two particularly heinous shootings: a racially motivated shooting in Buffalo and a massacre at an elementary school in Texas.
An elementary school.
It's just so sickening.
It makes me want to hide my head in the sand. I mean, it's just impossible to comprehend.
And each of these, one today, the other ten days ago, are just the tip of the iceberg of American gun violence.
I don't know what to say or think or do. People like Mark Kelly, Gabby Giffords, and others are doing heroic work to address this issue. I admire them all.
I went to my favorite place to find an image for this post (Amplifier). This artwork makes me feel better and reminds me that we all have a responsibility to reimagine the epidemic of American gun violence . . . and other difficult problems. It's our only choice. Not giving up.
Copied from The New Yorker: “Don’t listen to those who . . . say that this is an impossibly hard, or even particularly complex, problem,” Adam Gopnik wrote, a decade ago, about gun control. “Summoning the political will to make it happen may be hard. But there’s no doubt or ambiguity about what needs to be done.”
