
And I’m still scared to live in a country where 20 children — children — can be shot to death, and the government doesn’t change a single thing about it. (Compared to when, say, the Our Lady of Angels School fire killed 87 children in Chicago in 1958 and sweeping changes in school fire safety regulations were enacted nationwide to ensure it never happened again.) Sandy Hook could happen again tomorrow and every day this week and still many people would say, “Your dead kids don’t trump my rights.”