Words cannot express the depth of my sorrow to hear that you have now joined so many others who have died from a senseless shooting.
This morning, I heard a man say that maybe your death was for the best, given the likely extent of the injuries you suffered.
He’s wrong.
What would be for the best would be for you to be waking up on this sunny Colorado morning with your head full of thoughts on what you were going to be doing during Christmas break and whatever other important and interesting matters were currently going on in your life.
What would be for the best for your family, and the family of the boy who shot you, would be to have their children with them today.
What would be for the best would be for the outrage over these continued shootings to finally override the insane fervor to continue arguing for the “rights” of gun owners above the rights of everyone else.
What would be for the best would be for all of our politicians to pass rational legislation with the confidence that they won’t be recalled for doing what the majority of their constituents want them to do.
So far, my personal support of better gun controls and strong personal liability for gun owners who don’t secure their guns hasn’t done much good. But, I promise that I will continue those efforts in the memory of you and others before you with the hope that one day we can listen to the evening news without hearing about yet another shooting.