Children should lose friends because of childhood disagreements, not because adults have failed to address gun violence.
By Theresa Vargas Theresa Vargas Local columnist who previously wrote for the local enterprise team about poverty, race and people with disabilities. Email Bio Follow Columnist May 11 at 7:30 AM I found it on the kitchen counter when I got home from work.
They were in the same class that year, but even so, on the weekends, they still pleaded for play dates. During those gatherings, they whispered secrets and threw their heads back in laughter at each other’s antics. They shared their favorite toys.“On my first day of school, I got a friend,” the first page read.The third page had a drawing of two little stick figures with giant word bubbles flowing from their mouths.On the last page: “But I did not know why.
What I cannot accept, though — what constantly worries me for him, his little brother and other children — are the friends and classmates they might lose, not because of natural childhood disagreements, but because of blatant adult failures. We saw children huddled — yet again — outside a school, hugging and crying, watching as police cleared their building.
Since Columbine alone, according to a count by my colleagues, we know more than 228,000 students have experienced gun violence at school, but that does not include children who have had friends gunned down in their neighborhoods or school shootings before 1999.
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