I still remember the worn paper sign that hung in the corner of my old tenth-grade English classroom, behind our teacher’s desk by the window. The half-faded words stamped across it that looked like they had been coughed out of an inkjet printer in its dying breath, but their message was nonetheless clear:
Why do we kill people to show people who kill people that killing people is wrong?
When I think about what happened last night during the election, I think back to that sign. It’s true that this is a “historic moment” in every sense of the term, … Read more