We feel like we’re trapped in that Onion headline they’ve been printing once a week for 10 years: “‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens.” If you tuned out the news for your sanity, there was yet another school shooting this week.
This time it was in Georgia, at Apalachee High School. Two students and two faculty members were killed when a 14-year-old opened fire with an AR-15.
The assault rifle was apparently a Christmas present from his dad, who is now also being charged with murder. Lawmakers are always asked about school shootings because, well, frankly they’re the only ones who can do a damn thing about it, but they never do.
Usually they offer “thoughts and prayers.” Georgia Governor Brian Kemp told reporters who asked if there’s anything more his office can do about school shootings: You know, the old “too soon” argument.
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