Welcome to the Daily Article Podcast for Wednesday, May the 25th, 2022.

I'm Chris Elkins with the Denison Forum, narrating today's article written by Dr. Jim Denison.

An 18-year-old gunman killed at least 19 children and two teachers at Ross Elementary School in Uvaldi, Texas yesterday

afternoon.

Those killed in the attack included a veteran educator and two 10-year-old fourth graders,

though the majority of the victims have not been officially identified as of this morning.

Authorities say the gunman's grandmother is in critical condition at a hospital

near San Antonio after he shot her at home. These are the deadliest school shootings since the

Sandy Hook tragedy in 2012, where 26 people were killed. It marks at least the 13th shooting

at a K-12 school in the U.S. this year and came just

10 days after a deadly racist rampage in Buffalo, New York. President Biden addressed

the nation last night, expressing his grief over the tragedy. Speaking from his experience

in the loss of his first wife, a daughter, and one of his

sons, he closed. May the Lord be near the brokenhearted and save those crushed in spirit

because they're going to need a lot of help. When you first heard the news yesterday,

you may have asked how many people were killed and why the shooter committed

this horrific crime. If you have young children at home, you were likely concerned about how to help

them with the anxiety that they would be feeling. And you were feeling anxious yourself in the

knowledge that something like this could happen at your children's or grandchildren's school today.

I asked the same questions and felt similar emotions myself.

Then I realized that these responses viewed this tragedy through the prism of our personal perspective.

None of them focused on the grieving families or the injured survivors. Almost immediately,

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