Michael Cohen - Prayers Don't Heal Bullet Wounds

There’s a familiar routine that follows every mass shooting in America. Sirens scream. Families cry. Politicians tweet out their well-worn lines about “thoughts and prayers.” Reporters descend on a town that never asked for the spotlight. And the rest of us, numbed by the frequency, brace for the inevitable question: Why?

That question is supposed to make us feel better, like if we can crack the motive, we can make sense of the carnage. But what comfort is there when the answer is almost always the same? A disgruntled, angry, depressed, and mentally compromised individual with a personal grudge or grievance, armed with a legally purchased high-capacity assault rifle, unleashes hell on a place that should have been safe.

This time, it was a church. A church. Two children dead. Think about that: an 8- and 10-year-old. Seventeen others injured. Survivors left with scars you cannot see.

And I can’t help but think about Uvalde—about children trapped in classrooms while law enforcement hesitated outside. About Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, where teenagers texted their parents goodbye. The recent Park Avenue shooting, just blocks from my home, where a gunman nursing a grudge against the NFL entered the wrong floor of an office building and opened fire, leaving chaos and death in his wake.

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