When Will We Choose Our Children?

An open letter to policymakers in the wake of another devastating shooting.

Today close to thirty people died in a horrific school shooting. In an elementary school. Twenty of the dead were young children. Countless other children were witness to this horrific crime.

Like so many times before the news comes to us as people talk about what happened. About the shooter. About the families.

Some people say that Americans are becoming numb to these shootings. That we have come to expect them. This is simply not true. Continue reading