Why us?

We had air raid drills when I was a child. We went out in the hall, or sat under our desks with books over our heads. People built air raid shelters. We worried that the bad guys, foreigners, usually the Russians were going to bomb us and kill us.

Now we have code red drills in our elementary school. We lock our doors and hide the children to make them as inaccessible to see as possible from any doors or windows in our rooms. Now the enemy is a person from the neighborhood who decides to go out and shoot students.

That is terrifying. Worse than those faceless communists, in my opinion.

The person who might kill your child is someone who lives nearby, who seems like that quiet shy son of that nice Mrs. So and So.

Why? Because he went off his meds? Or? Almost any reason that seemed viable to his messed up mind.

We have had 45 school shootings in this country this year! And the one uncontroversial, inescapable common denominator is that each one had access to a gun or guns.

No other country in the world has this problem.