UVALDE MASSACRE

“Hey Punk, Where You Goin’ With That Gun in Your Hand?”

Why wasn’t he stopped before the carnage started?

Sherry McGuinn
4 min readMay 27, 2022

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Excuse me for paraphrasing Jimi Hendrix, or rather, songwriter Billy Roberts, who originally penned the stunning “Hey Joe.” But, for some reason, the iconic lyric struck me as the perfect thought-starter for this story. Because, there are questions about the Robb Elementary Shool Massacre that need answering and thus far, all I’ve heard is a stream of slick, double-talk.

There’s no need to go into our country’s latest atrocity in detail as we’re all aware of the innocent lives lost due to yet another sick prick with an assault rifle. And, it would be hypocritical of me to spread any more of the doom that already pervades this platform.

What I want to know is this: Parents, what are you teaching your children? Are you teaching your children? Or are you raising self-absorbed nimrods who don’t give a shit about anything other than how they look in selfies?

I pose this question, as, according to multiple news reports, the shooter, who took the lives of twenty-one innocent people (twenty-two counting the husband of one of the teachers killed who died of a heart attack while planning her funeral), posted his intentions on social media. Clearly and…

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Sherry McGuinn

Long-time writer and big-time dreamer. Screenwriter. Cat mama. Red lip aficionado. sherrymcguinn@gmail.com