Saturday, May 6, 2023, a mall in Allen, Texas: eight dead, including children, and at least seven more injured. In America we don’t need the headline above to know what happened there. It is only the latest event in an epidemic, a plague of guns, a monsoon of bullets.
In just the past two weeks there have been mass shootings–defined as events in which at least four people are shot–in Cleveland, Texas (five killed), outside Tulsa, Oklahoma (six killed), and Atlanta, Georgia (one killed, four injured). It is only spring, but already this year there have been at least 202 mass shootings, more than the number of days so far in 2023. Last year, there were at least 647 of them.
Shootings are now the top cause of death of children and teens in the greatest nation on earth. Continue reading “Mass Shootings and Insanity”