The mass school shooting in Nashville Monday still weighs heavy on us today.
Why did this have to happen, again?
Why as of Thursday morning has this horrific tragedy still not been declared a hate crime?
Why is there a polarizing, double standard now on everything?
Right is right and wrong is wrong.
What has happened to our society’s moral compass?
How can someone get to such a drastically low point of mental illness, to a distorted mindset where they enter a school and shoot innocent children and teachers without their circle of influence taking action to prevent it?
We have so many questions and our hearts hurt for the families who lost loved ones.
As we approach 24 years since we were all sickened by the Columbine High School shooting, we reflect on the sheer number of mass shootings. While realizing one innocent child’s life lost is too many. We all realize guns and evil existed long before the founding of our great country.
What has changed?
Unfortunately, Christianity has taken the backseat for the majority of Americans. More children are growing up in broken homes. The true sense of community, the kind we all grew up in is lost and, in most cases, forgotten around our country. And any information you want is within a few clicks of your keyboard no matter how radical it is.
The items mentioned above are all the seed fields of the great mental illness issue that plagues our county.
A generation ago, people had great respect for one another. Most children were raised in stable families with core values. The general public understood right from wrong and respected the sanctity of schools, churches and the places where young people can grow up safely.
It is unlawful to commit murder. And one of the Ten Commandments is “Thou shall not Kill.”
Again, right is right and wrong is wrong.
Nothing we do or say can bring back the lives we have already lost to mass shootings. However, unfortunately, this tragedy like the rest will be politicized.
America, we can do better.