From North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz:
It’s morning here in America.
And there is mourning here in America.
It’s the beginning of a new day after yet another massacre with guns.
Today (like so many other days) will be filled with new memorial hashtags, with a parade of incendiary panels of television pundits, with a flood of flowery public offerings of “thoughts and prayers” from opportunistic politicians—and lots and lots of premature funeral plans by devastated loved ones, unnecessarily living their worst nightmares.
And not a damn thing will change after this day—just more attrition, more violation to bodies, more permanent interruption of life, more new cruel vacancies around the table.