For a year, many of these families have pleaded, argued, demanded, advocated, marched and testified for accountability and legislative action.
Layla Salazar would sing “Sweet Child O’ Mine” with her father on the way to Robb Elementary School each morning. Now, there is no singing.UVALDE — There are thousands of cemeteries across the United States where the old rest alongside the young; cemeteries where people who lived out the four seasons of their lives, rest in peace with people whose lives didn’t extend beyond spring.
Nineteen sets of parents weren’t delivering their children to martyrdom when they dropped them off at Robb Elementary the morning of May 24. There have been other families that, after mass shootings, after school shootings such as Sandy Hook and Parkland, have transformed their grief and anger into advocacy for greater gun safety. All those shootings are defined by one date, that of the shooting, after which came a reasonable understanding at reasonable speed of the details.
For a year, many of these families have pleaded, argued, demanded, advocated, marched and testified for accountability and legislative action, which would prevent more names being added to our nation’s list of mass shootings. What they want most — the return of these children, mothers and wives — they cannot have so their fight has been to protect other children, mothers and wives from the same violent fate. They have nothing to gain except to spare others of their pain.
We should be grateful for their gifts of selflessness and persistence. For their devotion, we should be thankful. As I drove back home, that afternoon, eight people including children were being murdered in Allen, outside of Dallas.
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