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The Writing on the Wall? Time was, such a horror would stop us in our tracks. We would say, "Really? You are kidding, aren't you? No, that couldn't have happened!" Now it's a "horror of the week," every week. Are we being desensitized by the repetition of these abominations? Are we becoming numb to human suffering? Last week at the children's day school in Los Angeles, a two-and-a- half year old boy who had escaped injury, asking about the three children who had been shot, one critically, said, "Mommy, did they do something wrong?" I feel like that question ought to be written in blood and put in a time capsule. It represents the incredible harm we are doing to our children. That little boy may actually believe that if you do something bad enough, then the routine punishment might be to get shot. Try psychoanalyzing that kind of fear out of his psyche! I don't know what it is going to take for us to declare a kind of "state of emergency" in our society, but I believe that the time is near. I cannot join those who say (or imply) that it can all be solved by restoring prayer to the schools (God has never left the schools, you know) and putting a flag out to wave. But if we
continue to insist upon maintaining all our freedoms at their fullest
even if it means that folks remain totally free to preach hate and to
buy deadly weapons for no good reason, I think we are paying too high
a price for those freedoms. I, for one, would trade a bit of that freedom
for a great reduction in office, schoolhouse and nursery slaughters. Enough
is enough!
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