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dead that day in Kentucky were two 15-year-olds. One was a girl named Bailey Holt. The other was a boy named Preston Cope. But there was no real outrage in America that day about Bailey Holt and Preston Cope, because the country has become numb to school shootings by now.
Not long ago an illegal immigrant behind the wheel of a car killed an Indianapolis Colts football player named Edwin Jackson. It is not even remotely in dispute that Jackson’s death was both senseless and tragic. After his death, this is what President Trump tweeted:
“So disgraceful that a person illegally in our country killed @Colts linebacker Edwin Jackson. This is just one of many such preventable tragedies. We must get the Dems to get tough on the Border, and with illegal immigration, FAST!”
So you got the idea if the Democrats were just willing to get tougher on the border, we’d barely have to lock our doors at night. But what is righteously and truly disgraceful is that high school students are not safe in this country at this time going to school in the morning.
We will certainly get back on the old merry-go-round today, led by the gunnies from the National Rifle Association, and hear that the only way to properly keep America safe from guns is even more guns. Except at a time when politicians try to divide this country as much over immigrants as we are already divided over race, ask yourself a question:
Who is more dangerous to high school students these days, an undocumented immigrant or another angry American with a gun in his hands and snakes crawling around inside his head?
There is no sane politician, at least no sane politician not in the deep pockets of the NRA, who can look at the list of school shootings in this country and possibly think that the laws we already have about guns in this country — the insane, unfettered access to guns — are working. This isn’t about the Second Amendment, or responsible gun owners, or which mass shootings involved guns purchased legally and which did not. This is about an America where we lead the
GUN FIRED, NO ONE INJURED (METROPOLITAN HIGH SCHOOL)
world in shootings like the one that occurred on Wednesday in Parkland, Fla.
It is once again worth asking this question today: How many border walls would we need to build around American schools to make parents think that their children are actually safe when they say goodbye to them in the morning or drop them off?
And ask this question, after the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas, as the President says that no child and no teacher should ever feel unsafe: Why the hell shouldn’t they?