You would have thought that a weekend that includes Father’s Day when we celebrate and say thanks to our nation’s dads and a weekend that also includes Juneteenth when we celebrate and are grateful for the end of slavery in our nation’s history, would not be a weekend filled with violence in the form of shootings.
But it was. From here in San Diego, where one person died and another was wounded in the shooting during a concert at Liberty Station where many families were gathered, to a pool party in Carson, just up the freeway in L-A to a Juneteenth celebration in Chicago, to a music festival in Washington State.
At least a half a dozen people were killed and dozens more were injured in all the shootings there have been around the country from coast to coast this weekend.
A professor of public policy at Carnegie Mellon University told the AP, “There’s no question there’s been a spike in violence in the U.S. and pointing out that some of these shootings “seem to be disputes that are played out with firearms and not with fists.”
So once again, all of this begs the obvious questions; what is going on and why is it going on and what do we do about it?
Maybe a weekend designed for celebrating turning into a troubling and sobering one will spark more concern about finding answers.
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