Weâve failed our children | Column
We love our children, but we love guns even more.
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We owe you an apology.
Meaning all of us in the generations above you. We had one job where you were concerned, and that was to keep you safe. âSave the children,â pleaded a man named Marvin Gaye a long time ago. But we didnât. We failed.
And for that, Iâm sorry. You deserved so much more.
Leonard Pitts [ File photo ]
I offer this apology in the names of more of you than there is space to list. It is in the name of Sherdavia Jenkins, who was 9 and Jacob Hall, who was 6. In the name of Katylin Bellamy, who was 2 and Rodriquez Ferguson, who was 4. In the name of Grace Audrey McDonnell, who was 7 and Carmelo Duncan who was 15 months.
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Leonard Pitts: We should move heaven and earth to keep our kids alive. But we don’t.
You are our children, and we love you very much. But the killing of a 3-year-old at his own birthday party is just the most recent evidence that we love guns even more.
By Leonard Pitts Jr.The Miami Herald
We owe you an apology.
Meaning: All of us in the generations above you. We had one job where you were concerned, and that was to keep you safe. “Save the children,” pleaded a man named Marvin Gaye a long time ago. But we didn’t. We failed.