‘Recognizing We Have a Problem’

Jonathan Poritsky on the massacre in Conneticut:

The most important thing for us to do today, as a nation, is to recognize that we have a problem, that there have been a string of senseless murders that have made 2012 a depressingly bloody year. And recognizing that we can and must do something to prevent them.

That’s not being political. That’s being an adult.

Agreed. See also Jason Kottke’s great coverage:

• Roger Ebert on the media’s coverage of school shootings
• Kids and guns in the USA
• How to talk to kids about school massacres
• The NRA is winning the war on guns
• Facts about guns and mass shootings in the US
• It’s a Smith and Wesson Christmas
• How do we prevent school massacres?
• The United States of Guns
• The right day to talk about guns
• Mr. Rogers on helping kids deal with tragic news events
• Japan is a land without guns (and shooting deaths)
• Six facts about guns and gun control
• Studies: more guns, more homicide

And that’s just what Kottke has published as of this writing.

What’s clear is that, as a country, we have a problem. Whether you believe the problem is gun control, or mental healthcare is irrelevant to the problem at hand.

The simple fact is that today, we as a nation, failed to protect our children — that’s on all of us.