Another school shooting this time in Georgia. The slaughter continues as a 14-year-old student brought an assault style rifle to school and started his rampage killing. The bravery of two police school resource officers ended the incident. Donβt get too smug Tucson, we had a 12-year-old murder an adult in a shooting last year in East Tucson and 90 shots fired in a shooting incident near Swan & Speedway. Itβs hard to describe the disgust I have for our politicians right now. I wonder if Washington, Adams, Lincoln, or even Martin Luther King Jr. would have stood silently by? The voices of our children and teachers are being drowned by the hurricane of violence in this nation and there is no end in sight. But, I have a dream, I have a dream that one day the children of my four grandchildren will be able to attend school without the worry of active shooter drills or being killed by some coward with an assault weapon.
Richard Harper
Northeast side
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