I just submitted the following to be asked at tomorrow night’s Democratic debate:
We have an epidemic of school shootings plaguing our nation. Nine years ago, the Columbine shooting was all this nation could talk about. Now school shootings seem to have become such a common place that they are just a blurb on the crawl of the news networks.
The problems are not limited to school shootings either. We now hear more stories of police officers using excessive force against citizens. Here in Ohio a case is going on in Stark County where six police officers stripped a female prisoner naked and made her lay in her cell all night nude. Stories like this happen more often now and leave one with a sense that abu Gharib was not shut down, but rather moved closer to home.
There has been a deafening silence on the campaign trail about these issues. Society is what makes a nation and our society is facing peril if these kind of stories continue at the current rate. As President, how would you address the problems of increased school shootings, excessive police force and other like issues challenging our nation?
Let’s hope they ask it.