A Rant: Another School Shooting
It is 9:36 AM on a Friday, May 18, 2018, and I am home watching the news. The news is talking about yet another school shooting at Santa Fe High School near Galveston, Texas. We have yet to know the details. An expert in Homeland Security, called this an epidemic, and he is right. If this were a disease, killing us all, we would be panicking lining up for any cure or treatment we could use to save our children. If we limited it to a particular source, we would try to control it. (Think HIV and condoms, we learned that a virus caused it and we figured out condoms provided some type of protection.) My local news just announced that there are 8 dead. They are quoting CNN and showing a listing of all the school shooting since the beginning of the year. They are quoting that on average there has been one school shooting a week since January 1, 2018. They just stated the shooter used a shotgun, not a military-style weapon. So this rant will not be abo...