New Jersey: Open Letter Regarding Mass Shooting In Uvalde, Texas

HARRY HURLEY OPINION – EDITORIAL

We should first correctly grieve for the various households, whose lives had been shattered yesterday when an 18-year-old gunman opened fireplace at The Robb Elementary Faculty in Uvalde, Texas.

This isn’t a political concern for anybody to try to exploit. That’s the absolute fallacious and damaging method to take. We should collectively reject any and all makes an attempt to politicize this tragedy.

It is a human concern. We should be there for one another.

At this writing, a reported 19 college students and two academics, in addition to the gunman are lifeless.

Conflicting media reviews say that the gunman’s grandmother (who he apparently shot first) is both lifeless or in essential situation.

Yesterday’s mass capturing is the second worst in American historical past, behind solely Sandy Hook Elementary Faculty on December 14, 2012, in Newtown, Connecticut.

We have to open up a uniquely essential New Jersey and nationwide dialogue to handle this and former tragic incidents.

It has to date confirmed to be subsequent to unattainable … however, we should discover the best way to take away any and all politics from this dialogue, or, there might be no profitable path out there to try to resolve this nationwide emergency.

The previous two mass shooters (Buffalo, New York on Could 14, 2022) and yesterday in Uvalde, Texas, had been each 18-year-olds.

Yesterday’s assault occurred simply 10 days after the lethal, racist rampage at a Buffalo, New York grocery store.

My suggestion is for all folks of excellent religion to start an applicable dialog collectively. We should set up strict floor guidelines:

Don’t blame:

• The 2nd Modification to The Structure.
• Gun Producer’s.
• Gun Foyer.
• Politics of any form.

If we will set up honest guidelines of optimistic engagement, then maybe an open, intellectually sincere dialog can take form.

Let’s deal with issues that we will all agree with:

• Nobody needs harmless residents in public, or, kids, academics, supportive employees members in colleges to ever be damage or killed.
• Can we agree on sure working requirements (to be decided)?
• In our colleges, designate one strictly enforced entrance/exit for colleges.

Yesterday’s mass shooter was sporting physique armor and reportedly crashed his car earlier than getting into the Robb Elementary Faculty.

A video confirms that he was simply capable of enter the elementary college.

The Robb Elementary Faculty is now closed and it was introduced by Texas Governor Greg Abbott that it’s closed for the remainder of the present college yr.

This provides to a a few years lengthy sequence of mass shootings at church buildings, colleges, shops and different areas.

Yesterday, right this moment and going ahead, dad and mom and grandparents will hug their kids even tighter then ever earlier than.

I spoke with my grownup kids about this yesterday. To gage how they had been feeling. I posed the query, “Is that this our nation, now?” “Are we going to only settle for that that is going to occur from time-to-time”? “Or, are we … as a group and nation going to take applicable corrective motion”?

We cannot resolve this in anybody article, or, anybody radio discuss present. However, we will resolve to start a course of, with a acknowledged objective of working in direction of an answer.

After the September 11, 2001 terrorist assault in opposition to our nation, our nationwide elected leaders acquired collectively (put politics apart) and created a brand new Division of Homeland Safety.

No international enemy has succeeded in one other terrorist assault on American soil in additional than 21 years.

Collectively, we should discover a resolution to home terrorism, in fact, with out infringing upon American civil liberties, that are sacred.

We’re the best nation within the historical past of the world. After we are united, we will accomplish something.

Thats why we’re The USA of America.

Let’s earn this profound title and Republic that we now have been given and get to work to unravel this downside.

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