On the one hand, they are certainly well-intentioned, but It’s hard to argue with what she’s saying. There’s a sadness and frustration you can feel ebbing off her tweets.
As a nation, we’ve devolved to the point where people think a good civic reaction to an ongoing, yet preventable national tragedy is to hit up the creator of an ABC comedy on Twitter so the show can affect policy change.
Think about that for a minute – Does anybody really believe that if only there had been a workplace shooting episode of The Office, those horrors would be behind us by now?
No, the entertainment sector cannot move the needle on this problem, but it sure feels like The Onion is throwing a Hail Mary to try. They’ve devoted their entire homepage to rerunning every instance of their ‘No Way To Prevent This, Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens’ school shooting running commentary. That’s apex-Onion.
It’s a sobering thing to see, but it won’t be enough, just like an episode of Abbott Elementary won’t be enough – the only thing that will be enough is when we all say, “enough.”
And sadly, that just hasn’t happened yet.
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