Missing the Target

Mass Shootings and The Absurdity of Arming Teachers

Tim Wise
7 min readMay 11, 2019

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Credit: Miguel Morales Madrigal, Cartoonmovement.com

Twenty years after the carnage at Columbine seared the image of mass school shootings into the national consciousness, and after several similar high profile shootings have occurred in other schools, one would hope that the nation had fashioned a comprehensive response to such tragedies.

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Tim Wise

Anti-racism educator and author of 9 books, including White Like Me and, most recently, Dispatches from the Race War (City Lights, December 2020)