I am acutely aware that the words from this brief blog post will go unnoticed by those who prowl the halls of power in Austin and Washington.

I’ll offer them anyway.

Another school shooting has claimed the lives of young people who attended class never thinking today would be their final day on this Earth. The shooter, also a juvenile, then turned the gun on himself, according to authorities in Madison, Wis., where the tragedy occurred.

It happened at a Christian school in Wisconsin’s capital city.

At last report, two people — a student and a teacher — died in the gunfire, six were injured.

OK, so what is the question we need to address? I suppose one should be how the young shooter obtained the weapon that I suppose was purchased legally. Did he get it from Mom and Dad’s dresser from an unsecured place? Did the parents do enough to keep the firearm out of the kid’s hands?

Well, too many questions remain to be asked and to be answered.

My concern about those in power deal with their reluctance to even debate these issues openly. Texas has two U.S. senators, John Cornyn and Ted Cruz, who blithely dismiss any legislative remedies to strength anti-gun legislation. North Texas U.S. Rep. Keith Self of McKinney is cast in the same hands-off mold as Cornyn and Cruz.

These men are Republicans, and they follow the mantra muttered by Donald Trump, who actually bragged during the 2024 presidential campaign that he was “proud” to do nothing to stem gun violence in the wake of another recent shooting.

And so, our alleged “leaders” likely will offer their “thoughts and prayers” for the loved ones of those who died or who are recovering from their wounds.

And then nothing will happen.

Shameful.