19 Kids

Ulvade, Texas. A city that now takes it place along side Parkland, Buffalo, Columbine, Sante Fe, Newtown and many others. 19 kids…19. Innocent lives lost and families that will forever be altered. 19 kids. All at an age where their biggest concern should be fractions, the end of the school year, little league,cub scouts, girl scouts and all the other things a 10 year old thinks about. 19 kids….The debate has begun. Guns….take them away. This would never have happened if it wasn’t for guns. Would it be that simple. We live in an culture soaked in grapic, often sadistic, violence. Older folks find themselves stunned by what a desensitized youth finds routine, often amusing. It’s not just movies. Young men sit for hours pulling video-game triggers, mowing down human beings en masse without pain or consequence. And we profess shock when a small cadre of unstable, deeply deranged, dangerously isolated young men go out and enact the overlearned narrative.
19 kids….
I’m saddened and incredibly angry…19 kids..