parkland, el paso, pittsburgh, brooklyn. i ask the question so many of you are asking, why are we not protecting our kids? why is nothing changing? as a journalist, i ve had to cover too many of these mass shootings. perhaps we re becoming desensitized. as an american, a parent, you send your kids to school on an average day and never see him or her again. it s unspeakable yet that s what happened in uvalde, texas. i know this gets into background checks and red flag laws and other measures that advocates call common sense gun reform and opponents call a breach of the second amendment. there are also questions about how the texas police misled journal withists about school journalists about school security, about mental health, about social media radicalization and whether there s a way to stop sick, twisted men who just turned 18 as in texas and buffalo from legally buying guns. but the bottom line is that washington is paralyzed. it s highly unlikely that anything wil