We now have anti-gun technology that renders bullets pointless. Light travels faster than a bullet. Our AI guided lasers pop bullets before they reach their destination. They will soon be installed in public places. Now, that's the best defence against a bad guy with a gun... because it's actual defence... not fighting fire with fire.
If one wanted to make a fictional world where gun violence was normal and children were in danger every day at school from some cowardly shooter, the United States has nailed it already. Poverty, guns, greed, envy, jealousy and sloth as a goal. Only love can cure all that, a powerful love of every neighbour, the will to clothe, house and feed all.
God calls us to love and protect. All school's out until the guns are, private and public, united youth in the United States. And, yes, this sort of solidarity is exactly the education our kids need.
They are pocket nuclear bombs, these guns. Their radiation sickness spreads into the community and lasts for generations. If love cannot command us to abandon the tools of violence in the name of our children, then we are lost. School shooting is a symptom, the cause is a society built from emotional indifference that worships money, power and greed. Build a society from love and everything changes; cure the real cause and these evil symptoms will vanish.
Let's have our schools shooting for glory, shooting for the stars as our children are so safe and well that they learn with great passion and happiness. Let's have schools planting seeds that shoot up brilliant green stems, leaves and blooms. Let's have "shooting a school" mean making a cool new movie. And these sweeter interpretations of "school shooting," are ones that would comfort us and God; but they will come after the guns are melted and used to make statues of our dead little ones.
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