desensitization

  • School shootings should not feel normal

    School shootings should not feel normal

    Since 2018, there have been nearly 2,000 school shooting incidents in the United States, according to the K-12 School Shooting Database. I will repeat that one more time: there have been nearly 2,000 school shooting incidents in the past 8 years. That is an average of 250 school shootings each year. The general length…

  • Perpetual gun violence leads to desensitization

    Perpetual gun violence leads to desensitization

    “____ is in our thoughts and prayers.” Fill in the blank with any location that has been a victim of gun violence, and you might start to notice that we hear this phrase so often that we have become so comfortable with it, to the point where we almost expect it. Our flag is…