Another school shooting ...
Thought for the day
I can't believe it's happened again. What is it about December that makes kids want to kill kids? Yesterday's shooting in Madison, Wisconsin, which left at least two dead and several wounded, came just two days after the 12th anniversary of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in Newtown, Connecticut.
Dating back to when Barack Obama was in office, each time there has been a school shooting, I have urged the sitting President to convene a gun safety summit at Camp David (with representatives from the National Rifle Assn., Second Amendment proponents, law enforcement and families of victims in attendance). When 50 of my neighbors co-signed an Open Letter to Joe Biden summer before last, highlighting the merits of such a summit, I thought someone in the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention would respond. Unfortunately, no one ever did.
So now, as we head into Christmas, another school shooting has occurred leaving grieving parents and friends to wonder why. If you ask me, it didn't have to happen. If only there had been a gun safety summit like we suggested in 2022.
-DF
The shooter was a 17 year old female attending that school. I cannot fathom what has made this happen in schools. And as hard as this is for me I actually support making the parents do the time when the killer takes themself out.
Now that Trump will be president we certainly will not see what I thought was your very necessary idea for a summit on gun control.
How could anyone with a beating heart shrug their shoulders and not shake America down???
We must get to the root causes of WHY we in America have these shootings. It is tragic!!
There are countries (ie: Sweden) having a higher guns per capita ratio than us who rarely ever have these shootings/killings. In America when we were growing up, there were even gun clubs in some schools and there was NEVER such a shooting.
RFK Jr. has demanded such investigations be done and I am confident under his leadership our Health and Human Services will now do their job and Make American Healthy Again.