West Palm Beach is about 40 miles from Stoneman Douglas High School, where a 19-year-old ex-student killed 17 students on Valentines Day. There’s nothing special about Florida in that. It will happen again, somewhere, sooner rather than later.
Mar-A-Lago, President Trump’s Florida White House, is also about 40 miles from Stoneman Douglas, 4 miles from where we’re staying in West Palm Beach. I understand that the President has polled members of Mar-A-Lago about gun control, and actually I think a little better of him for it. Most of us are looking at our friends and asking what can be done.
I still have friends saying arm teachers, bring God into classrooms, restore decency. I’m fond of my friends, but some of them are nuts. Most teachers don’t want to be armed, and either God can go where he wants or not.
As for decency, there was the story today of a 15-year old victim, Peter Wang, who was murdered while he held the door open for other students. He was wearing his JROTC uniform. Apparently he wanted to go to West Point, and yesterday, five days after he died, he was admitted to the class of 2025.