After yesterday's post about the economic inequality that blights so many lives, it's worth noting that young people being anxious and depressed might have something to do with mass shootings.
When we were dropping our youngest off at college, I actually pondered if someone would do exactly what happened at UNC the other day. It was a long drive out to Colorado, and my mind wandered about until it landed on "Oh, yeah, I wonder if there will be a mass shooting." That's not a topic that students in other countries have to deal with.
There have been stories about how the war is creating long term trauma in Ukrainian children, but something similar - if at a much smaller scale - is happening here.
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