No horns and fangs, but are Americans monsters?

It takes a monster to kill children. But to watch monsters kill children again and again and do nothing isn’t just insanity — it’s inhumanity — Amanda Gorman America has ceded control to monsters. Does that make Americans monsters? We don’t lurk under the bed, but we sit by and watch the slaughter offering empty words that mock justice and insult the next victims – there will be next victims.

That’s worse than having horns, fangs or cloven feet.

Do we really care that 19 little kids and two teachers were mowed down by bullets in a Texas school less than two weeks after shoppers were massacred in a grocery store in Buffalo and elderly church members fought for their lives after being ambushed in Southern California as they ate lunch?

If our elected officials don’t care enough to stop the insanity, do we?

It is supposedly a government of the people.

We the people sit back as our lawmakers offer sorrowful words but do nothing to address gun violence – thusly empowering the so-called monsters rampaging against the lambs.

The monsters are well-fed

There already have been 213 mass shootings this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive, a nonprofit.

And it is not just mass shootings that’s the problem.

Education Week has counted 27 school shootings so far.

There have been 49 murders in Columbus this year, all but three shootings.

There were more than 200 murders – a record – in Columbus last year, all but a handful involving firearms.

Columbus Assistant Police Chief Lashanna Potts called the people who killed 22year-old Charles Wade, 9-year-old Demetrius Wall’neal and 6-year-old Londynn Wall’neal in December “monsters.”

The Texas shooter was called a monster and so was the accused killer in Buffalo.

“This monster crafted a diabolical plan to lock the church doors with his victims inside in order to lead what he thought were innocent lambs to slaughter,” Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer said of the man accused of firing on a Taiwanese church

We’ve done nothing to truly address gun violence. The results have been the same, more gun violence here and around the nation. That’s monstrous. It is inhumane.