Back to school in the U.S. means worrying about kids being murdered. Did you know that in the U.S., we have 17 times more guns per capita than people do altogether across the world? Some of those weapons, particularly automatic firing guns like AR15s, are used to kill our children. A pattern for school shooters involves Bullying, Social Media, and other adverse childhood experiences.
Back to school in Kharkiv now means going to school underground. The million-dollar school features a long corridor of classrooms painted sorbet colors: lemon, lime, and tangerine. The school is carved out of the earth, almost 20 feet underground. Ukraine does everything possible to protect its children.
Ukraine’s danger is Putin and Russia’s unprovoked attacks, not kids shooting their classmates and teachers.
Putin fights to destroy Ukraine’s democracy, and he is willing to attack homes, schools, hospitals, and more to do it. With the U.S. and other European democracies’ aid for weapons, Ukraine fights its own battles.
Our U.S. troops are not involved—there have been no call-ups. We rural Americans should be grateful for that since, if there were call-ups, 44% of those soldiers called up likely would come from rural America.
Here, the serious question is how to stop the killings of our children. Our soldiers are safe, but not our kids.