Dear PPGV Friends and Colleagues,
I am furious. I cannot adequately encapsulate the grief, rage, fear, repulsion and frustration I feel as I try to process the trauma that took place at Oxford High School earlier this week. How do we understand the fact that a 15 year-old armed with a 9mm Sig Sauer semiautomatic pistol fatally shot four of his classmates and wounded seven other people (six students and a teacher)? How can we possibly pretend that we live in a civilized society when a child can commit acts of terror using a weapon of war his father purchased four days prior? READ MORE