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Last week American school children once again became the innocent victims of yet another senseless shooting rampage.

Whenever these atrocities occur, I believe society should respect the victims and their families by giving them a few days to grieve their losses, to memorialize their children, and to bury their loved ones. However, it will take many Americans a long time to heal from the Uvalde Massacre.

Now that the dust is finally beginning to settle, we can begin to ask why these shootings keep happening. These kinds of mass shootings have been increasing ever since Eric Harris and D...