Anyone who thinks the latest school shooting changed minds is fooling themselves. While I love the spirit and resolve of the teenagers in Florida and elsewhere who are vowing to make change happen, I also feel sorry for them. They are about to discover that politicians of all stripes are even more cowardly than all but the most pessimistic among us already know and believe. This isn't the 1960s anymore when there were still enough people in power who could be moved by something other than a campaign check when young people mobilized. Before these brave, open minded and hopeful high school students can complete their March 14th protests all over the country, there will be probably be another mass shooting, maybe even at another school. We don't do it with explosive vests strapped to our chests and under some horribly twisted notion of religion like in far too many other places but we're every bit like those parts of the world where simply going to the market on any given afternoon might leave dozens of us dead. I weep for the innocent lives shattered. It's too bad these killings go on and on and on and on. Perhaps if one happens within the halls of congress, and the dozens dead include nothing but the cowards currently in office, something will finally change. Short of that, nothing really will. This has become our way of life and the price we pay for our "freedom."
