We Can’t Give Up on Ending School Shootings
Losing hope is not an option.
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The suspected shooter in last Saturday’s Brown University attack, also the suspected murderer of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor killed on Monday, has been found dead. The discovery won’t bring back the victims, but it will allow parents in Providence —
many of whom had been keeping their children home from school — to breathe a little easier. At least until the next school shooting.
Because we know there will be another one. Whatever your personal opinions on the right to bear arms, one conclusion seems unavoidable: We have failed our children. School shootings in America have become so routine that two students at Brown had already survived one.