The screams of American parents who have lost their children to school shootings continue.
Once, the parents of 20 children were gathered into the back of a firehouse and told that their kids were dead, The Times reported. Their screams could be heard outside. |
That was a decade ago in Newtown, Conn. Those screams haven't faded. They've joined an ever louder, ever growing chorus. |
Their number swelled again Tuesday, joined in grief by the families of at least 19 more children in Uvalde, Texas. Two adults were also killed. |
Some 84 percent of American voters support universal background checks. Yet enough federal lawmakers are content with the status quo on gun safety — content with things as they are. And so they do not change. |
"This is the blunt, damning truth: The latest shooting was 100 percent predictable," my former colleague Nicholas Kristof wrote in a column entitled "How to Reduce Shootings" in the wake of a 2017 church shooting that left 26 people dead. Year after year — sometimes week after week — Times Opinion has updated Nick's column, as we did last night. We'd like never to do so again. |
But to be American is to live among guns. The government simply won't do what the people are begging it to do — and dying for, when it does not act. That is a tragedy for the security of our nation's schoolchildren, and for our democracy. |
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