It seems like every time there is a school shooting, the country turns on itself and begins arguing about gun control, crisis actors, statistics about whether they really are getting worse, etc. As a counselor but more importantly as a parent, these shootings scare the crap out of me. But I think what scares me equally as much is the fact that we can’t talk about this as a country without it becoming a fight and in the process we dehumanize the victims and never get anywhere near a solution.
I mean, how can we find a solution if we can’t even agree if the shooting happened to begin with? Its crazy but that is where we are at and I for one am not going to sit back and not try to do something to change the discussion about school shootings. So for the latest installment of Gray Matters, we attempt to change the discussion and focus on what it feels like as a parent right now with all of these incidents and attempt to understand whether shootings are perhaps the symptoms of a greater problem with society itself. We pose the idea that maybe rising suicide, depression, and substance abuse rates might all be different symptoms of the same problem.
So join us for this very important episode of Gray Matters Radio. As always I am joined by my co-host, The Armchair QB Bill Reed. Gray Matters Radio is a proud member of The Reporters Network family of podcasts. You can catch new episodes of Gray Matters every Monday.
