For some Americans, dead students are the price of freedom
The country is praying and mourning after the latest massacre that left 19 children dead. But in a week or two, forgetting will begin. Then suppressing and ignoring.
Posted today at 4:55 p.m—
More than 20 people died in the attack on a Texas elementary school: mourning in Uvalde.
Photo: Allison Dinner (AFP)
The worst thing is the dead children. The most frustrating thing is the indifference with which America accepts the deaths of these children. Maybe not now, in the first few hours and days after the massacre. The president stands in front of the microphone in person, every senator and member of parliament says or demands something, the television stations send reporters to the scene of the crime, the country prays and mourns. But in a week or two, forgetting will begin – worse still, repressing and ignoring. In a month, you’ll have to go to Wikipedia to find out which West Texas village the elementary school kids were killed in and how many victims there were.
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