Time and time again we see shootings on the news. Just recently, we had a gunman shoot two people who were a part of the news team in Virginia. The man who sprung into a movie theater is finally being put on trial. Now, just yesterday, there was a school shooting in Oregon. There are no other words to describe what the country is feeling other than sadness and anger.

Yesterday, a gunman walked into Umpaqua Community College, shot his professor and then other students in the class room. He asked all those who were Christian to stand. When they did, he just told them: “Good, because you’re a Christian, you’re going to see God in just about one second,” and then he shot and killed them.

An investigation shows that he spoke of the shooting in Virginia, commenting how the gunman in that situation was invisible “yet when they spill a little blood, the whole world knows who they are.” It seems as if this might be a contributing factor as to why the gunman came in, and for that reason, his name will not be in the article.

President Obama has said that we have become numb to these types of crimes. It is on our TV screens as if it were our regular, weekly broadcasting; it has become background noise. Each time shootings roll around, the aftershock known as gun control comes right behind it. But, does anything truly happen? All I hear is the screaming of a few politicians, drowning out the screams of the children before them.