--"another" school shooting? Why are we okay with "another" one?

I am disgusted and furious about how Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) has declared that there is nothing to be done about school shootings and gun violence, and that this is just the way it is. His answer to a reporter's question about how to keep children safe is that he homeschools his daughter. His biggest "solution" is to have a Christian revival in this country.

I wonder if, as a Christian, he'd be dismayed if Christ himself had looked at the crowd and said, nah. Not gonna fix it. 

It's time to do something radical, like thorough national background checks, increased focus on and treatment of mental health, and restricting access to high-powered assault-style weapons? Mandating that guns be locked up or stored elsewhere? There are, after all, other countries that do these things, and they are not starting the morning news with "another mass shooting..." every few days.

The shooter in the Tennessee school tragedy was under a doctor's care for emotional issues and had purchased SEVEN firearms just days before. 

Let that sink in: SEVEN. 

You would think that the sheer number of guns purchased might cause a little red flag moment.

Parents are angry. Teachers are angry. Kids are scared. But yet, here we are. A gun culture that pretends that life is sacred, but really prefers its life-destroying power. Because the assault-style weapons that are front-and-center to just about every one of these tragedies are made for nothing but ending human life in a rapid, efficient way. They are not for target practice (and let's be honest, target practice is to improve one's aim, and not an end in itself). They are not for hunting. They are for killing other human beings. 

Children.

In a "safe space."

My heart is heavy.

C