Hearing news of children being brutally murdered will always be terribly painful—more so when these children are in what ought to be one of the safest places in the world for them. In the case of this Wednesday’s shooting, which occurred at the Annunciation Church in Minneapolis, the fact that it happened during the first Mass of the school year made it sting all the more.
Earlier that morning, as my wife and I dropped our children off at their respective childcare settings, she expressed her reluctance ever to move to the United States, with school shootings chief among her reasons. I argued that whilst a problem, it would be extremely unlikely that our children would ever find themselves caught in such an atrocity. Tragically, the parents of the victims will have rightly hoped the same.
