On Gun Control We Still Haven’t Made Improvements

We keep calling these shootings “tragic but unavoidable.” That’s not true. They’re the result of a country flooded with guns and paralyzed when it comes to real gun control. When a place like Brown can’t guarantee safety, it sends a message to every student and parent: nowhere is off-limits.

After every shooting, we hear the same lines. It’s not the guns. Regulation won’t help. Freedom is at stake. Meanwhile, students learn lockdown drills before graduation requirements, and parents wait by their phones, terrified of the next alert. That isn’t freedom. That’s fear dressed up as policy.

I’m not against responsible gun ownership. I’m against a system with weak background checks, easy access, and almost no accountability. Guns are treated like symbols instead of what they are—deadly weapons.

Other countries see this and can’t understand why we refuse to change. Honestly, neither can I. The shooting at Brown isn’t just a campus tragedy; it’s proof that our failure to confront gun violence is costing us our sense of safety, again and again.