When it comes to life and death, thoughts and prayers are not enough.
While I was planning what I would say today, days after the deadly shootings at a Florida High School, I was eating lunch at home. Lunch consisted of a leftover piece of sautéed wild salmon and a side of raw organic kale. And I thought - this is a caricature of an east coast self-righteous liberal lunch. And how sad is it that as a country we can’t seem to talk about anything without labeling each other politically in ways that stereotype and shut down the conversation. You talk this way, eat that way, and we have very little to say to each other.
But I’m not standing here today to talk about lunch.
I’m standing here to talk about what we can all do, as Americans - left, right and center - to make sure that the horrible things that are happening in our country are less likely to continue happening.
17 people in Parkland, Florida - students and teachers - don’t have the luxury any more of worrying what to have for lunch. They were gunned down by someone carrying a semi-automatic weapon.
Was he mentally unstable? It appears so. Was it hard for him to get hold of the weapon he used? Not at all.
While I was planning what I would say today, days after the deadly shootings at a Florida High School, I was eating lunch at home. Lunch consisted of a leftover piece of sautéed wild salmon and a side of raw organic kale. And I thought - this is a caricature of an east coast self-righteous liberal lunch. And how sad is it that as a country we can’t seem to talk about anything without labeling each other politically in ways that stereotype and shut down the conversation. You talk this way, eat that way, and we have very little to say to each other.
Two people embracing before the funeral of Alyssa Alhadeff, 14, a victim of the Parkland shootings
But I’m not standing here today to talk about lunch.
I’m standing here to talk about what we can all do, as Americans - left, right and center - to make sure that the horrible things that are happening in our country are less likely to continue happening.
17 people in Parkland, Florida - students and teachers - don’t have the luxury any more of worrying what to have for lunch. They were gunned down by someone carrying a semi-automatic weapon.
Was he mentally unstable? It appears so. Was it hard for him to get hold of the weapon he used? Not at all.
