Is there anything more painful than parents burying their children? How about children losing both of their parents in the same week? There’s so much pain emanating out of the Uvalde, Texas, Robb Elementary School shooting. For all the yelling that is happening about different gun legislation, can we stop for a moment and acknowledge that there is still something we can all be outraged by? That we can see as senseless and evil death? Honestly, that’s not a given anymore — that anything is common ground.
So we pray and we offer our aid, but it is an inconsolable pain for the families who are burying their young children because of a disturbed young man on a rampage. As I write, there are so many questions about why he wasn’t stopped. Why he was in the school for so long? These are all above our pay grade — for most of us. If there is a foolproof way to keep a disturbed young man from getting a gun, and if he gets one, if there’s a way to keep him out of a school, I think most people of good will would agree we should pursue them. But we also need to think of things much more basic and in each of our lanes. Psychopaths, for most of us, are also above our pay grade, and so is the question of how to treat severe mental illness. But one thing that isn’t is being a gaze of love to another.
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