Two children, ages 8 and 10, were killed and 17 people were injured when a shooter fired through windows at Annunciation Roman Catholic Church in Minneapolis. The 23-year-old shooter later died by suicide. The attack occurred during a morning prayer service and victims included school-age children. Emotional reactions included public grief and visible distress from a public figure who described thinking about her own children and the parents and grandparents navigating returns to school. The reaction expressed anger and emotional exhaustion at recurring mass shootings and criticized many politicians for offering only thoughts and prayers in response to repeated tragedies.
I've been thinking about their friends and their teachers, about all of the parents, about all the grandparents out there navigating the return to school. And all they should be hoping to do is have someone to sit with at lunch or someone to play with on the playground. They should be waiting to hear an update when they get home. And that is not what these parents at the school experience today.
Having your child killed while they are sitting in a pew for a morning prayer service is not what any parent should have to worry about. And I have felt a mixture of anger, a lot of anger, and emotional exhaustion about this today as I'm sure many of you have, because we have been here so many times. So many times! And yet again, like clockwork, half of the politicians in our country have little more to offer than thoughts and prayers.
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