'Will It Be Safe There?' The Question I Can't Answer

"Will it be safe there?"

That was my 11-year-old daughter's first reaction when I told her that we would be going to a vigil in the wake of the Orlando shootings. She was asking because the massacre happened in a public place where innocent people had gathered, as we were about to do. She was asking because her dads are gay and homophobia was one of the hatreds which drove the shooter. And she was asking because I had just answered her logical question of how one person could take so many lives by himself: he legally owned a military-style killing machine that our country is ok with him having. She was asking because she doesn't want us to get shot.

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