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STAND IN LINE
It’s been 26 years since that tragic day in Colorado…April 20, 1999
when 10 students and one teacher were killed in Columbine.
I remember most of us in the country with tears flowing at the time
assumed that things would change…that they’d be different…after Columbine.
But nothing was done…despite how the the fabric of our country shook…
and 12 years later, December 14, 2012
20 more children and 6 more adults were killed at a school in Sandy Hook.
Surely something will be done now we thought!
No government no country will sit back and watch their children die!
But again nothing was done and on February 14, 2018
17 more people were killed in Parkland, Florida at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High.
Still nothing was done to tackle this problem…to address why parents are afraid…
and 7 years later on August 27, 2020 n Minneapolis, Minnesota
2 more children killed and 18 injured…at a church while these children prayed.
We should have learned the lesson that the1999 mass shooting taught…
but it’s clear by offering only thoughts and prayers…we certainly did not…
Because today mass murders of our children and others persist…
and the Church of the Annunciation in Minnesota…is now added to the list.
Our government must be heartless to do nothing…as parents tearfully ask them why…
Why have you done nothing for 26 years except watch our children die?
Until our politicians open their hearts, their minds and have the courage to act
there will continue be more mass shootings like the one that began in Columbine.
And when grieving parents plead for help…
they will be met at the door with thoughts and prayers…then told to stand in line.
They will be lead to the back of a long, continuous, cross-country, never-ending line…
stretching all the back…26 years…to April 20, 1999.
Copyright ©
Jim Yerman
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