Hello, and welcome to another episode of Iway with Jemila Jamil, a podcast against shame.

I hope you're well, but what happened in an elementary school in Texas this week makes

it really hard for most of us to even comprehend what kind of world we are living in.

And it is just fucking weakly atrocity upon atrocity in a new cycle, but this being such

young children, and this being the 27th mass shooting in America this year, and it's

only May, right at the end of May.

Just makes you wonder what is going to be enough for us to have gun laws that protect

people, all these same people, crying pro-life, pro-life, caring about all these children

that don't even exist, doing nothing, lifting not a finger to protect the children already

here, soon as they're out the womb, they're on their own.

And this isn't me trying to crowbar the abortion conversation into a tragedy.

This is me saying that these same senators claim to care so much about the lives of children,

about the lives of citizens, about the futures of all these people they haven't even met

yet.

And yet they won't do a single thing.

In over two decades since Columbine, they won't do anything to make this country just a

little bit safer.

We've seen this work again and again in other countries.

And I know that we're never going to be able to abolish all guns in the United States.

But we need some sort of legislation creating restrictions that stop this from happening

with such ease.

What is it going to take?

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