Tag: uvalde

In closets, in gloveboxes, in drawers and nooks and crannies all around the Spokane Valley region, there are guns. How people relate to those guns is individual; the approach to firearms is a wildly diversified human reality — and the topic proves just as varied for Spokanites of different backgrounds and paradigms.

Like most of us watching the news recently, I was shocked and horrified by the shootings in the Uvalde school on May 24th. In a country numb from hundreds of shootings, I was surprised I could still feel anything about them at all.

The number of dead resulting from gun violence of all kinds is staggering. There were 692 mass shootings in 2021, the most since 2014, when the Gun Violence Archive began keeping records.

I know that we are the lucky ones. Many other young people — children — have had their lives stolen from them. The parents of 19 children and 2 teachers in Uvalde, Texas, aren’t consoling their kids in their loss of innocence, but are being consoled in their grief following the loss of their children.

We re-awaken from this regular nightmare of guns and shootings and mass death, and as yet, we have not learned anything.