Description: herbs, earth & spirit
This morning, after tending my sorrowful mother heart, I did some of the math I learned years ago in my entirely safe fourth grade classroom. Here’s what I came up with:
There have been 948 school shootings in the United States of America since 2003. This amounts to 49.8 school shootings per year. Almost 50 mass shootings in schools every year in our country! More than four school shootings per month, every year, for the past 19 years, on average. I was stunned…I asked myself, what have I done about this?
More of that math I can remember because I wasn’t in fear for my life: There have been 3500 mass shootings, mass murders, in the United States of America over that same period of time. I was again quite shocked to discover that this amounts to a horrific 184 mass shootings, mass murders in public spaces, per year! That is more than 15 mass murder incidents every month in the United States of America. That is three mass shootings in public spaces per week, with a few extras to tuck in here and there, for the