Covenant School Mass Shooting
Like gun violence in general, school shootings are now commonplace. In truth, it’s like groundhog day, the national mourning in their wake.
After all, everyone – from the police to politicians and pundits – always says the same things. “Ban assault weapons!” “Guns don’t kill people, people kill people.” It makes them look almost as insane as the shooters who perpetrate these crimes.
So the last thing I want to do is contribute to the insanity. Instead, I will refer you to what I wrote in the wake of the Uvalde School Shooting.
How to prevent school shootings
This shooter killed six, including three children. But, to be fair, Republican politicians are saying something new.
They are calling for the death penalty for all school shooters. But they can’t be serious. If they were, they’d be calling for the death penalty for all operators of opioid pill mills too.
Republicans are just trying to wash the blood of schoolchildren off their hands. But it won’t work. That’s because they’re still propagating NRA propaganda. That, of course, is the absurdity that more guns will prevent gun violence, which makes sense only to gun manufacturers. And they are as responsible for the epidemic of mass shootings as drug kingpins are for the epidemic of addiction.
But Republicans have convinced poor Whites to vote against gun control. And that, despite the clear and present danger gun violence poses to their own children. Of course, Republicans also convinced them to vote against government-subsidized health insurance. That’s so the government can subsidize tax cuts for the rich. Sick!
Meanwhile, President Biden is leading Democrats in calling for more gun control. Except this, too, smacks of insanity. It’s like the proverbial closing of the barn door after the horses have bolted.
But I’ve said enough about the gun-crazy USA. Except I’d be remiss not to damn the media for being as responsible as Republicans. Because TV news stations, in particular, always turn these tragedies into entertainment. And they couldn’t care less that doing so induces a “lone wolf” to perpetrate the next one. I’ve been bemoaning this insanity for over a decade to no avail.
Transgender shooter: a she acting like a he
The only genuinely newsworthy thing about this shooting is that the perpetrator was a cis woman. That is very rare indeed. Never mind that she made this shooting less so by identifying as a man. After all, only cis men are insane enough to commit mass murder.
So then, until the next school mass shooting.