Sandy Hook Elementary, Brown University, and the Conservative Gun Lust Killing Our Children
Medium | 15.01.2026 20:02
Sandy Hook Elementary, Brown University, and the Conservative Gun Lust Killing Our Children
How many young people will be violently ripped from this life over the next 13 years if we do nothing?
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Every allegiance has a cost.
There is a price tag to irrational fidelity.
Passionate devotion to something always comes at the neglect of something else, or sometimes even its total disregard.
13 years after the horrors of Sandy Hook Elementary, Conservative America’s abnormal adoration of guns continues to kill our children.
Seeing petrified Brown University students crammed into utility closets, reading frantic goodbye texts from sons and daughters to helpless parents, and hearing firsthand accounts of the scalding chaos visited upon young people in places where dreams are meant to be nurtured, not destroyed, a sickening feeling of deja vu comes.
We’ve seen this far too many times, and we know how it will unfold:
Classroom scenes of carnage and brutality befitting foreign war zones.
Performative social media grief from Republican politicians whose lapels are adorned with AR-15 pins, their empires built with the blood money of…
