This week’s blog is late because I have had a difficult time comprehending the horror that happened this past week at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
I am a teacher and I got scared. My students were scared. My own children were scared. We all have questions about our own safety at a place where we spend a good portion of our daily lives.
How can we prevent this from happening at our school? At all schools?
What do we do if/when it happens to us?
Is this why schools have fences and gates now and feel like prisons?
Can teachers carry guns to protect the students?
Even though I’m the adult, I don’t know the answers to their questions, to my questions. It seems that we can’t prevent this from happening, because it keeps happening.
Four school shootings since the beginning of January. It leaves me questioning humanity.
How do people get to a point in their lives that killing people seems reasonable?
How do school shootings and the devastation they bring to a community and families turn into a fight about gun control instead of a discussion about helping people heal?
How are we so apathetic that we miss some of the warning signs?
How do we stop the carnage?
Then I see pictures like this…
and my faith in humanity is restored.
People loving people. Being there for each other with a comforting hug and a shoulder to cry on.
I don’t know if we’ll ever be able to stop mass killings. I kind of think that as long as there are broken people in this world, we won’t be able to.
That’s a hard thought to deal with, but as long as the helpers are there, I know that we can get through these tragedies.
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