'When does this stop?' For 2023, an alarmingly bloody start
The carnage over eight days in California, where the dance hall victims Saturday night were among two dozen people killed in three recent attacks, brought painful reminders to families of last year's school shooting in Uvalde, Texas. On Tuesday, several Uvalde families and parents traveled more than three hours to their state's Capitol to renew calls for tighter gun laws, even if they have little chance of winning over the Republican-controlled Legislature.
"People are dying every day. This shouldn't be happening," said Veronica Mata, whose 10-year-old daughter Tess was among the 19 children and two students slain in Uvalde. "If it takes us coming every week, then we are going to do it until we see something change."
"These kids are going to turn into adults," Alexander said. "If they don't know how to handle conflict, we're going to see unfortunate events like this happen."
That was the case in Virginia this month when the 6-year-old shot and wounded his teacher in front of his classmates. Virginia Beach Mayor Phillip Jones said he could barely wrap his head around it. And two teenage students were killed Monday in a school shooting in Iowa.
For some, the violence is linked to an alienating period in U.S. history that has isolated people from each other and chipped away at the ability to cope with life's travails.
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