Our Legacy
The legacy of shame we cling to.
We have invented a new class of shooter survivors, children who have now survived more than one mass school shooting. One of the women fleeing the carnage during the Brown University shooting was heard to say, “Not Again!”
But there is nothing left to say when you refuse to do anything about it.
America has become one sad fucking tragedy.
Our best friend was at that Las Vegas concert—the one that left more than sixty people dead, that night or in the aftermath. And then, because apparently the universe is auditioning for a role as a sadist, she later learned two survivors died by suicide.
And if that wasn’t enough, she was on the UNLV campus when the mass shooting happened last year.
At a certain point you stop saying “What are the odds?” and start saying, very calmly and with feeling: What the actual fuck.