“We All Know This Isn’t Okay”: Gabby Giffords on How to Find Hope, and Demand Change, After Uvalde

The drill is always the same. When I get news of one of these school-shooting horrors, my phone starts blowing up with media requests from people who want to hear from the author of Columbine. So I turn on the TV to get up to speed. Not this time, with 19 young children and two teachers slaughtered in Uvalde, Texas. I just couldn’t bear to watch. It felt like Sandy Hook, the Sequel. Too horrible. And my next thought was: Why bother anyway? I could stare at the blank screen and recite most of the things people were saying. It’s… Read Full Article