Was there a moment when it dawned on you that the Uvalde massacre of 19 schoolchildren and two teachers is not going to result in any meaningful change in our nation’s gun laws?
I suspect that there wasn’t. As a nation, we’ve already accepted the subtext that plays in the background of all mass shootings: These deaths are merely the collateral damage that we incur for maintaining our right to own a firearm.
If the murders of 20 6- and 7-year-olds at Sandy Hook didn’t move us to action, why would 19 more deaths of children in Uvalde?
