Aren’t We ‘Hardened’ Enough?
6 min readJun 2, 2022
Mass shootings are the symptoms. The diseases are misogyny and extremism.
The linguistic metaphor falls like a cruel joke.
After the devastating, demoralizing, horrifying, enraging Uvalde school shooting, elected officials in Texas referenced a law they passed in 2019 allowing districts to “harden” their schools.
