It Has to Stop
In the wake of another shooting at yet another school, I can't help but wonder when will this nation wake the hell up and get real? When will our national conversation on such events stop being about whether we are conservative or liberal, gun-owners or non-gun-owners, Republicans or Democrats and start being about how to stop this insanity? Now I don't use the word "insanity" to disrespect anyone with mental illness. As I was reading today in an article, of course we assume that anyone who would shoot up a school and kill children MUST be nuts. It's the only way we can console ourselves that these things are not who we are as a nation. Wake up people, it has become who we are. Plenty of theories abound but one seems to ring true for me. Maybe it isn't the sole reason, or even the primary one but let's think about it for a moment... Desensitization. If you were at all paying attention to the news WAY back in the 1980s groups of parents were all co...