After 19 children and two teachers were gunned down in their fourth grade classroom in Uvalde, Texas, all of America was in an uproar over gun violence and screaming that something must be done to protect children from mass shootings in schools.
I, and a lot of people in this country, certainly every parent of school-age children, thought then that surely our lawmakers would go to great lengths to make darn certain every school in every community was made as safe as possible, and that no cost would be too much to protect the most vulnerable among us, our kids.
To its credit, Congress did act, passing the most significant bipartisan gun reform bill in decades and heavily investing in mental health intervention in schools, too. But those reforms were the lowest of low-hanging fruits, and by themselves will do little to make schools safer.
