May 24, 2025

When we mark the third anniversary of the Uvalde school massacre, it is encouraging to know that we have taken concrete steps to reduce the carnage associated with mass shootings.

Company A is offering a window film to schools. The film purportedly reduces the impact of bullets aimed at destroying your loved ones.

Company B offers a line of allegedly bullet-proof school items, e.g., backpacks. Your child could perhaps wear their backpack throughout the day and be nonplussed about an armed intruder interrupting their history class.

Organization C has developed a training program entitled “Stop the Bleed.” Middle and high schoolers alike will learn how to apply tourniquets, a particularly useful skill set when classmates are spewing blood. (Uvalde’s survivor kids will be asked to take the training.)

Organization D: the Republican Women’s Committee in Uvalde invited a January 6 “protestor” to address its group. Attendees would learn the fine points about how to commit a crime, spend time in prison, get pardoned by a felon and thereafter be referred to as a “protestor.”

Executive Action E is a cogent reaction to the various gun reform measures enacted by the previous administration: cancel them. Moreover, the ATF Department (Alcohol, Firearms, Tobacco) is being moved within the federal government and being implicitly told its watchdog activities relevant to guns are no longer needed.

Private enterprise (A&B), non-profits (C), and political groups (D), not the government (E), will be responsible for handling the philosophical nuances of, e.g., kids getting killed while doing math.

America’s world leadership in the category of classmates in pine boxes is not at risk.