Writes The Tennessean about merely this latest in a long, long line of national obscenities:
The horrible task of counting began before noon.
How many children and staff members had gone into Covenant School on Monday morning, and how many had come out alive after the gunshots?
Frantic administrators and teachers, tearful parents and first responders hurried to get that count finished. Parents were routed to nearby Woodmont Baptist Church waiting, hopefully, to be reunited with their children.
And they waited.
In fear. In shock. In anger. They waited for more understanding in a situation where none would be forthcoming.
Although we cannot fathom the fear, shock and anger of parents who lost their child in the Nashville school shooting — I have lost a son, but to addiction, not murder — we all feel those emotions. The shock will abate, but the anger continues.
For we are also doing nothing about mass shootings. By "we" I mean, of course, Republican politicians. One could hear, yesterday, the despair and hopelessness in President Biden's voice as he called for Congress to move on his assault rifle legislation — which is as dead as GOP integrity and political ethics.
On Twitter yesterday afternoon I saw the vulgar, despicable harpy Marjorie Taylor Greene offering — you guessed it — her "prayers" to the families of wantonly slain children. Prayers and nothing more.
I single out Greene unfairly. For her entire, despicable party is in agreement with her. It's willing to trade the gunshot bodies of nine-year-olds for mere votes.
"They waited for more understanding in a situation where none would be forthcoming." Such is our national motto in the realm of America's gun violence.