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Mourners gather after a funeral service held for The Covenant School shooting victim Evelyn Dieckhaus at the Woodmont Christian Church on Friday in Nashville, Tenn.
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The Nashville school tragedy of the indiscriminate assault-weapon killing of children and school personnel and the national lowering of flags is an unbearably painful bloodstained marker in the arc of American history.
The fact that these assault-weapon “freedoms” continue to be acted out, supported and upheld by the Supreme Court, constitutes another indelible bloody marker that frames America’s dark side. And then there is a third marker: a Congress that has joined the Supreme Court in abandoning the nation.
Give me a break. The nation seems to be approaching a time when it will be a norm to subject all schools to entry checkpoints like those used by the Transportation Security Administration.
Song lyrics from an album by The Judds couldn’t be more timely: “Grandpa, tell me ’bout the good old days, sometimes it feels like, this world’s gone crazy.”
Peter Apo
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