The flowers lay in the memorial of the Catholic School in Minnesota, with a card attached simply stating, “We get it. With love, Uvalde.”
Those words capture the crushing reality that communities across the nation are connected not by joy or hope, but by shared grief. It is a cycle that has become devastatingly normalized.
“It makes me sad but also scared, and I feel I need to be prepared for the worst,” StuCo Advisor Chelsea Franklin said. “My thinking pattern has changed from ‘Will it ever happen?’ to ‘When will it happen?’ and ‘How do I react?’ when it does happen.”…