“A
ll I could think about was how helpless I was.”
That’s what a patron at the Borderline Bar & Grill in California said late Wednesday night after escaping the rampage where a gunman killed 12 people.
It could have been said by anyone who had been trapped in any of the previous massacres that have stained our country — at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, the Route 91 Harvest music festival in Las Vegas, the Colorado movie theater or any of the schools that gunmen have targeted.
The Borderline patron’s sentiment also applies to many of us who weren’t there when the gunman opened fire. We all feel helpless when this happens and we hear about the people who perished.
We aren’t helpless, though. We can try to do something about it. So far, we’ve failed to stop these shootings from happening. But that doesn’t mean we should give