It’s a heavy day. It’s the second anniversary of George Floyd’s death at the hands of Derek Chauvin; it’s the day after yet another horrific school shooting, which came hard on the heels of a racist massacre at a Buffalo grocery store. All this against the backdrop of a million Americans dead from COVID-19.
Nineteen elementary school children are dead, so horrifically that their parents reportedly had to line up to give DNA samples for the identification of their bodies. A recent study found that guns are now the leading cause of death in children. An entire generation has spent their childhoods practicing active shooter drills reminiscent of the traumatizing “duck and cover” nuclear drills of the 1950s, and this just keeps happening. Meanwhile, all politicians can do is tell us to vote. How about they do something for once?
In the meantime: here’s how you can help victims of the Uvalde school shooting.
— Kelly Faircloth, Executive Editor |
