I sit here in tears yet again as news is developing about a school shooting in Florida today. I see images of children being reunited with their families, in tears, after having witnessed horrors that I can only imagine, and I hear reports that some will never come home from school again. I don’t have any children, but I am related to several, and many of my friends have them; the dread and terror one must feel in these situations during the period of time before the condition of your child is known must be almost unbearable.
The usual questions surface: Why? How did this happen? What led this person to do this? We will wring our hands and say that something must be done about guns in this country. Unfortunately I don’t have faith that anything will, even still. And so another shooting happens…and another…and another….
I don’t have all the solutions, but one thing rings clear to me: We are failing ourselves as a society in these situations. And we are ABSOLUTELY failing the children.