Marjory Stoneman Douglas

Multiple black students surrounded an 18-year-old white student and one of the attackers lifted and then dropped him head-first onto the pavement. There was a crowd of students who filmed the fight instead of calling for help.

Every day, 42 Americans die in gun homicides, the grim backdrop against which to talk about school shootings. In the three months between the 10 shot dead in Santa Fe, Texas, on Friday, and the 17 in Parkland, Florida, on Feb. 14, around 4,000 Americans lost their lives in firearms homicides.
In the initial horror following a school shooting, we witness the “thoughts and prayers,” finger-wagging from politicians not wanting to “politicize” the shooting, and promises to “do something.” Then, just as predictably, nothing happens.