Her immediate comment back to me, “I didn’t know they had that many poor people there.” As I calmed myself, I looked it up. The average household income in Highland Park is $232,000. The average household income in Uvalde is about $56,000. Our sensibilities tell us that grief and sadness is not a matter of rich or poor.

It’s fair to acknowledge that gun violence happens across the globe but in the United States we might make more headway on fighting gun violence if we accept violent and self-inflicted gun deaths are our new normal.

What do you do if you find yourself in a mass shooting situation? This short video prepared by the FBI shows the best ways to survive in an active situation.