Americans kill little Americans, while the rest of the US carries on as if guns are not to blame.
Memorial crosses for the victims of the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. Picture: REUTERS/VERONICA CARDENAS
This is according to data published by US teaching news site Education Week in its 2022 School Shooting Tracker. Data, of course, means nothing for the dead children of Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. Nothing for them but the news cycle, whose attention has already drifted away. Nothing for them but “thoughts and prayers” and mumbled rhetoric from the 46th president about “standing up to the gun lobby”.
The 45th president, meanwhile, reveals either the desert of his intellect or the grotesque donor-stroking callousness of his party — both work — when he says, at an NRA congress to which no-one was permitted to bring a gun, that Uvalde proves teachers should be armed.
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