Leila Sadat, a law professor and founder of the Initiative on Gun Violence & Human Rights at Washington University in St. Louis, equates the U.S. government’s failure to prevent and reduce gun violence with violating children's human rights. “The pitiful spectacle of politicians offering ‘thoughts and prayers’ as kids are buried is lamentable and an abdication of their oath of office,” Sadat recently wrote in an essay. "Children have a fundamental human right not to suffer ill-treatment in school. America’s adults are failing them.”