Look at the faces of Michigan State University students as they ran down staircases, jumped behind low walls and barricaded themselves in dorms and classroom buildings when a gunman opened fire on campus Monday night.
The photos and videos are all over social media, showing their fear and panic. Take a good hard look at them. Don’t look away.
This is what we’ve wrought in the United States, a nation under siege because of its destructive obsession with guns. Three young people are dead today, and five others were wounded. They are the latest casualties of a culture gone awry and a society that refuses to intervene or to say, loudly and clearly, that it has had enough.
