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Thoughts and Prayers are not enough, but what is?

Another school shooting; this time in Santa Fe, Texas, claiming the lives of 10 people.  Just 2 days prior to the Santa Fe Shooting, a town just 10 minutes from where I live, Dixon, Illinois, had a school shooting in which the 19-year-old shooter engaged with a school resource officer who ended up wounding the shooter and stopping him from taking any lives.  That day, the 16th of May, got me thinking very deeply about all of these shootings, because that day my children were also on lockdown at their schools.  It hit close to home, and when things hit close to home, people tend to go deeper into thought about those things they get used to seeing hit the news feed every day in America. I am not just talking about school shootings in this blog, however.  I am talking about all of the senseless mass shootings that have occurred in America now for years.  If you look up the statistics, there are horrible school shootings and other mass shootings every year....