“This Needs To Stop”

3 Killed in Shootings at Michigan State University

“I have to tell my son about another shooting on campus”

I can’t not tell him, not anymore. He has a phone. He has a laptop, required for school. He has friends with phones and laptops and older siblings. I had to tell him about Oxford, in November of 2021; he listened, quietly — he is not, by nature, quiet — and asked: “Are you sending me to school tomorrow?”

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“This needs to stop. Politicians need to stop choosing money over death. What soul do you have if you let kids die, and teachers, and as a matter of fact regular people, die, and choose money?”

“Politicians need to stop choosing money
over death!” 

(Excerpt from an article in the Detroit Free Press)