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Not One More

After all, we, as students, have more of a stake in this than we choose to acknowledge. There have been 45 school shootings this year: more than one per week. Craven politicians declare that more guns on campuses will keep us safe from sexual assault. We stay silent.

Kim Saltmarsh Dietz, 59 years old.

In the words of Christopher’s father: “When will this insanity stop? When will enough people say, ‘Stop this madness; we don’t have to live like this?’ Too many have died. We should say to ourselves: not one more.”

Quinn Glen Cooper, 18 years old.

So I ask: When will we have the courage to speak clearly and firmly that this is no longer acceptable, no longer normal? When will we be ready to shoulder this burden together?

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Jason Dale Johnson, 33 years old.

What will it take for us to start feeling again?

Not one more.


Nick F. Barber '17, a Crimson editorial writer, lives in Mather House.

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