How Many Children Must Die Before We Have Gun Control?
variety.comClaudia Eller Co-Editor-in-ChiefI originally had intended to write this week’s Editor’s Letter about the controversial trial of Johnny Depp and Amber Heard and how it infuriates me that the case has become a sickening spectacle of memes, audio recordings and video clips that trend on TikTok, and is the butt of mean-spirited jokes largely aimed at Heard.
It sickens me that people have lost sight of what is at the heart of this case: potential domestic violence — a dangerous issue that should not be made light of under any circumstances.Violence, of course, is evil in any form, and when the horrific news of the massacre in a Texas elementary school erupted this week, I felt compelled to devote this space to the memory of the 19 children and two teachers who were gunned down in their classroom in Uvalde, Texas, by an 18-year-old with an assault rifle.
It marks the deadliest — and the 27th — school shooting in the U.S. this year.I have vivid memories from a decade ago of how wrecked I was as a parent of then 12- and 16-year-old daughters when 20 first-graders, ages 6 and 7, along with six adults were shot and killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newton, Conn., on Dec.
14, 2012.In his remarks about the Texas shootings, President Joe Biden reminded that since Sandy Hook, there have been “over 900 incidents of gunfire reported on school grounds,” including Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla.In October 2018, eight months after the Parkland mass shootings that took the lives of 17 students and staff, I interviewed X (formerly Emma) González, a high school senior at the time who was one of the survivors.
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