I thought that too until one day I learned my nephew's school had a mass shooting
On Monday, February 13, 2023, a
mass shooting occurred in two buildings on the campus of
Michigan State University (MSU) in
East Lansing. Three students were killed and five others injured. The gunman, 43-year-old Anthony Dwayne McRae, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound when he was confronted by police off campus three hours later.
Can you imagine if I heard my nephew was one of the 3 students murdered? Notice wiki said kill. They weren't killed. They were murdered. There's a difference. Someone needs to update WIKI.
We can't even contemplate getting that call. It was a bit of a shock/worry to hear he was at school when there was a school shooting, and they knew some people who were in those two buildings. That was too close to home. Now imagine it was HIM who got murdered. Do you think your statistics would comfort me? We have way too many school shootings. Mass shootings. America has a gun problem. Every other country sees it. We see it. Maybe it's not a gun problem. It's a people problem. True. So what do we do? Ban people? LOL.