I’m heartsick this morning from the news of the shooting at the elementary school in Texas.  I was already sick from the news a week ago in Buffalo.  And the news from the subway in New York City.  And the news from the church in Laguna Woods, California.  From all areas of our country, rural and urban, elderly victims and children, all races, any setting, no one is spared.

Gun violence can happen anywhere, to anyone in America, because guns are everywhere.  We have learned to live with this constant threat and regular tragedy because the people who could do something to stop it, our elected officials, have decided to do nothing.  We do not lack good ideas.  Many commonsense proposals enjoy majority support from the American people.  What we lack are politicians willing to consider proposals, debate, compromise, come to consensus, and enact new laws.

We are talking in church about how to make social change.  Here is a situation where we must make a change.  We have chosen to tolerate gun violence, mass shootings, and innocent death.  We must make a different choice.  Voters need to know that our elected politicians will continue to choose to do nothing until voters decide that something must be done.