Will it Take Before we have the Will to Do Something?
Its May 26, 2022. I have to add something before I let you read my standard intro. I bought this domain something like ten years ago. I thought it might have a short shelf life. I turned out to be horribly wrong. There have been twenty-seven (27) school shootings this year. The latest was this terrible massacre of nineteen (19) children and two teachers at a school in Uvalde, Texas. Sure, somebody’s got to be really screwed up to commit such an act, but murdering children in your own community is not a normal symptom of being screwed up. There’s something seriously wrong with us if we can normalize the situation of a person turning eighteen (18) and not only thinking that they want to perpetrate such an act, but being afforded the means to do it. Oh, I’ll just buy a couple semi-automatic weapons today and go murder kids. I could do that, but I haven’t. Maybe you want to consider putting up some barriers to someone’s doing that. Given the total surveillance we live under where if I tell my wife the litter box is not working for our cat, my phone immediately feeds me an ad for a high tech litter box, you cannot tell me that its impossible to predict that somebody buying an AR-15 might have a plan. Well, that and the fact that the only thing an AR-15 is good for is killing humans in high volume. You wouldn’t want to hunt with the damn thing, it would ruin your trophy buck. OK, back to our regularly scheduled programming…
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Children have an awful lot to deal with today. I was just at the gym, and CNN was doing a piece on how the schools in Denver, CO are trying to help their students cope amid 21st century stresses and risks. At the most extreme end, gun violence takes an enormous tool on youth. At the other, they live in an incredibly divisive world that is hurtling towards environmental, economic, and societal collapse. Glad I’m not a kid! We started this site years ago with the idea that we would document the impact of gun violence on children and adolescents. Over the years the challenges that they face have exploded, so too must we broaden our view. We would like to see a world in which healthy children grow up to be healthy adults who can contribute positively to their communities and play roles in addressing the many challenges facing 21st century civilization. How Many Children Will it Take before we make them a priority?