Gun Control

Kentucky School Shooting; “Don’t Be Desensitized”

By News & Guts
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Remember when a school shooting would dominate the news for weeks? We can’t help but recognize the stark contrast to how these shootings are covered by the media now. There have been 11 school shootings just 23 days into 2018. Let that sink in. That’s an average of a shooting every other day. Have you heard about all these shootings? We admit we haven’t.

The shooting this Wednesday at Marshall County High School in Benton, Kentucky left two people dead and 18 others injured. The suspect is said to be a 15-year-old student.  When three people were killed in Paducah, Kentucky back in 1997, it dominated the news. Every part of the shooting was dissected.

While the shooting in Benton (and the 10 others in 2018) barely received coverage, there is a movement online not to remember the town’s name or the shooter’s name, but to make sure people remember who the victims are.

Dr. Martin Luther King Junior’s daughter even weighed in, capturing what a lot of this is about. Too many people have become numb to these mass shootings, whether at a school, at a concert or even at a church.

Is it time yet to talk about gun control? White House correspondent Peter Alexander posed this question to Press Secretary Sarah Sanders and the exchange became rather contentious.

Change comes from the top, but all the country’s leaders seem to be offering are words. And in the President’s case, those words were delayed (22 hours after Prime Minister Trudeau’s).

Our readers often ask what can they do in times like this. We know it can be a helpless feeling to sit back and watch all of this unfold again and again, but as one Maryland Senator says, we all, as citizens, can use our voices.