Nashville school shooting: America’s covenant with guns is killing our kids
“There is something deeply hypocritical about praying for a problem you are unwilling to resolve.” – Miroslav Volf
The GOP and NRA made a covenant to never do a damn thing about mass shootings in this country. They sealed the pact with the blood of our children. The attack on The Covenant School in Nashville is the latest example of the grim truth about America’s deadly obsession with guns.
My colleague Roy S. Johnson writes:
America, we love our guns more than we love our children.
We love our guns more than we love our educators.
We love our guns more than we love feeling safe while grocery shopping, walking through the park, watching a parade, or attending an outdoor concert.
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We love our guns more than we love our neighbors.
We love our guns more than we love ourselves.
There’s no lipstick to put on this slaughtered pig. Just truth.
I don’t know what else to say or write about guns.
About pleas to tighten access to guns, particularly to ban assault weapons—guns able to spray dozens of bullets at the snap of a synapse, with one squeeze. To tighten gaps in the sponge-like system of background checks. To require guns be stored and locked safely in our homes.
Three more children are dead, all just nine years old. Three more educators, too, all in their young sixties. All now dead.
We don’t care. Read it. Say it out loud. It’s just truth.
The Covenant attack was the 130th mass shooting in 2023, notes the Gun Violence Archive. It’s just March.
Read all of Johnson’s column here
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