That's a direct quote from a 14 year old family member this Memorial Day. Needless to say, we adults were shocked at the callousness displayed by my cousin's son. But in reality, we adults are to blame. Furthermore, the approving nods from the other youth present served as kind of indictment, as they were quick to point out. "We're not in charge. Ya'll are!" Left speechless, we could do nothing but look at each other with shame. The Constitution was brought up, and that sparked derisive laughter as if the document itself were a sarcastic joke.
This is what we as Americans have become, a group of people who have come to accept massacre and mass murder as a way of life. So much so that our children now feel that this it is perfectly normal to expect that at any moment their young lives could be cut down at random. Massacres are nothing new in America. What is new is how incredibly tolerant we've become after witnessing it time and time again. We can do nothing about this, we tell them. This is the price of freedom, we tell them. Just a few crazy people, we tell them.
And so, this brings our youth to the point of 'whatevs' or 'whatever, I don't care.' We have set up massive, well funded bureaucracies in every state for the protection of children from abuse. But a massacre? Well, we tell them they'll just have to get used to it. If this boy is indicative, they have.