Thoughts and Prayers Can’t Save Us Now.
4 min readAug 4, 2019
“At least it wasn’t another school.”
It was the first thought that crossed my mind this morning when I learned that we’d had our second mass shooting in twenty-four hours. I recoiled at my own callousness. When did I become so cynical?
Have I become so desensitized to these events that I’m now searching for a bright side? As if the lives lost to…