Michigan State
The first morning of our first day at goalie camp in Detroit, we started talking to a mom and her three kids watching their brother play.This was way back in 2011, I think.
By the time the lunch break came, we were already fast friends. Then Eli 9.11 came out of the locker room with the woman's son, and we found out they were already friends, too.
Every year, at the end of the week, they would invite us to their house for dinner, and we'd hang out for hours and forget anything but happiness.
I texted the mom this morning because her daughter is a sophomore at Michigan St. Her daughter had been in the building where the shooting happened, forty minutes before it started.
We live on thin margins in America.
There have been sixty-seven mass shootings in the United States in the first forty-five days of 2023. There are three things which are indisputably true:
1. We are the only country who has normalized mass shootings.
2. We have taken no meaningful action to control guns.
3. We are the only place where it happens over and over again.
Anyone who doesn't think these three things are correlated is in denial.
If you want this to stop, then you have to elect people who are willing to take action to make it stop. Until then, it will just keep happening over and over again.
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