Today, someone opened fire at a student housing complex at Texas State University in Houston. Two people were shot, one is being reported dead, a possible suspect has been detained, and the campus continues to be on lockdown. This tragedy marks the 48th school shooting this year, the third this week, and the second today. The story is still developing.
How many times have we said, "At what point will we start doing something about gun violence?" And how many more times will we have to say it before something — anything — changes?
After nine people were killed and nine more were wounded during the shooting that took place last week at a community college in Oregon, President Obama made a statement from the White House. “This is something we should politicize,” he said. "This is a political choice that we make, to allow this to happen every few months in America. We collectively are answerable to those families who lose their loved ones because of our inaction.”
But in June 2014, shortly after yet another a shooting, that time at an Oregon high school, Obama made a similar speech, noting: “Our levels of gun violence are off the charts. There’s no advanced, developed country on earth that would put up with this.”
If they were off the charts a year and a half ago, things are even more dire today. The president, who was visibly upset during his press conference last week, added, "The conversation in the aftermath of it — we’ve become numb to this." And it's hard not to feel numb, but it's important that we don't, or else nothing will ever change.
Related: http://www.teenvogue.com/story/college-shooting-northern-arizona-university
