.KJezerMorton's kids asked who the bad guy was after the shooting in Uvalde. Her answer? The moral cowards who slobber and grovel over money from the gun lobby
Photo: Eric Thayer/Bloomberg via Getty Images It is once again time to try to explain to our children the world we have made. How do we do it? Maybe you have a script at this point — you’ve certainly had ample opportunities to craft one.
My children are 8 and 11, and they are very much at the age when “bad guys” make conceptual sense to them. This is something they share in common with the adults who belong to the gun rights movement. It’s part of my job as a parent to help them think beyond this. We don’t live in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
There are places where I think it’s probably okay to encourage zero-sum hypervigilance on the part of children. Parking lots? Busy streets? These are minefields for people under five feet tall. Anything car-related, really, I’m willing to fearmonger about in order to keep my children safe, because their learned habits can actually protect them from harm. I’m fine with enforcing these “common sense” rules for the safety of children. Rampant gun violence doesn’t fit into this matrix.
Who the shooter is — he turned out to be an 18-year-old named Salvador Ramos — doesn’t really matter, I told my kids. There will always be miserable people with violent intentions, and it’s our job as decent citizens not to fear them but to hope they can be steered away from danger and violence. Most of the time, the people who undertake these barbaric acts look pretty ordinary.
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