It's happened yet again, a shocking new incident in what is becoming an increasingly common occurence in the US. A 20 year old barging into an elementary (primary) school, loaded with guns and assault rifles, most of them legally obtained, and gunning down 26 people, including 20 innocent children in the age group 5-10.
As a parent, you worry about the safety of your kids - but when you drop your kid to school, the worst you expect is some sort of bullying or maybe a kid falling down and hurting yourself. How do you reconcile to news like these?
CNN is live from the crime scene, now more than 24 hours from the time of the shooting, talking about how the Prez is sharing the grief of the families, and fighting back tears. Police are talking about how they are collecting "good evidence", that will help them figure out the sequence of events.
But is that all really relevant?
When is the US going to address the root causes? Easy availability of assault rifles because of almost no gun control, very poor internal security (although billions are spent in racial profiling and full body scanning at airports!), and a society that is increasingly getting out of control with a very weak family system and rampant use of drugs and other substances of abuse.
Something is terribly wrong, and there doesn't seem to be any serious and real efforts at addressing that.
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