OPINION: 'I’ve come to believe the only way for the gruesome massacres of the last two weeks to be a turning point is for us to face the carnage head on, in all its blood and gore and truth,' writes Dorothy R. Novick.
Demonstrators hold signs during a rally with senators outside the U.S. Capitol to demand the Senate take action on gun safety on Thursday, May 26, 2022, in the wake of the Robb Elementary School shooting in Texas. When we hear that a person has died, we imagine them fallen. But these children, with their soccer uniforms and pigtails and smiling faces — they did not fall. They did not collapse to the ground where a parent could lean down and cradle their bodies one last time.
It is a reality that is gruesome and traumatic and feels impossible to face. But instead of sanitizing their deaths with words like “fallen” or “lost,” we need to come face to face with this reality and tell it exactly as it is. But I, and so many others, have spoken as loudly as we know how about the profound impact of gun violence — how far it reaches and how long it lasts — and the words we have used have not been enough.
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