Opinion Today: America should be judged by the small coffins it tolerates

Three children are dead. The country, again, has failed. 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This time, the killer gunned down three children and three adults at the Covenant School in Nashville, and our incomprehension is renewed. But is that the right question? If it’s only here in America where we have a problem like this, where deadly shootings on school grounds have become horrifically routine, you have to wonder about responsibility. As Esau McCaulley, a contributing Opinion writer, says [in an essay this week](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRmB_-TP0T-aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyMy8wMy8yOC9vcGluaW9uL2hvdy1jYW4td2UtYmUtYS1jb3VudHJ5LXRoYXQtZG9lcy10aGlzLXRvLW91ci1jaGlsZHJlbi5odG1sP2NhbXBhaWduX2lkPTM5JmVtYz1lZGl0X3R5XzIwMjMwMzMwJmluc3RhbmNlX2lkPTg4OTgwJm5sPW9waW5pb24tdG9kYXkmcmVnaV9pZD03NzY3NDk1MiZzZWdtZW50X2lkPTEyOTEzMSZ0ZT0xJnVzZXJfaWQ9YWE0OTFlZjdmMWQ5NjRlNDk3OWZiNzg0ZTc0ZTAxZDdXA255dEIKZCGTeiVk1a7TAlIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luOTBAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAA), the reality is that we are a country that does this to our children. By failing to pass meaningful gun control laws, we are allowing these shootings to continue. McCaulley argues that the latest deaths are a rebuke of our inaction. “Every single young body riddled with bullets from guns that we could control preaches a sermon. They issue a word of condemnation, a jeremiad,” he writes. “There are many ways to judge the success or failure of a country,” he adds. “We can look at its economy, the strength of its military or the quality of its education. We can examine the soundness of our bridges or the smoothness of our highways. But what if we used a different standard? We should judge a nation by a simple metric: the number of weeping parents it allows, the small caskets it tolerates.” By this standard, America has obviously failed. So perhaps the question to ask now is, “How could anyone not do something about this?” [Read the full essay here.](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRmB_-TP0T-aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyMy8wMy8yOC9vcGluaW9uL2hvdy1jYW4td2UtYmUtYS1jb3VudHJ5LXRoYXQtZG9lcy10aGlzLXRvLW91ci1jaGlsZHJlbi5odG1sP2NhbXBhaWduX2lkPTM5JmVtYz1lZGl0X3R5XzIwMjMwMzMwJmluc3RhbmNlX2lkPTg4OTgwJm5sPW9waW5pb24tdG9kYXkmcmVnaV9pZD03NzY3NDk1MiZzZWdtZW50X2lkPTEyOTEzMSZ0ZT0xJnVzZXJfaWQ9YWE0OTFlZjdmMWQ5NjRlNDk3OWZiNzg0ZTc0ZTAxZDdXA255dEIKZCGTeiVk1a7TAlIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luOTBAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAA) [[Article Image] Dennis van de Hoef](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRmB_-TP0T-aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyMy8wMy8yOC9vcGluaW9uL2hvdy1jYW4td2UtYmUtYS1jb3VudHJ5LXRoYXQtZG9lcy10aGlzLXRvLW91ci1jaGlsZHJlbi5odG1sP2NhbXBhaWduX2lkPTM5JmVtYz1lZGl0X3R5XzIwMjMwMzMwJmluc3RhbmNlX2lkPTg4OTgwJm5sPW9waW5pb24tdG9kYXkmcmVnaV9pZD03NzY3NDk1MiZzZWdtZW50X2lkPTEyOTEzMSZ0ZT0xJnVzZXJfaWQ9YWE0OTFlZjdmMWQ5NjRlNDk3OWZiNzg0ZTc0ZTAxZDdXA255dEIKZCGTeiVk1a7TAlIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luOTBAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAA) [GUEST ESSAY How Can We Be a Country That Does This to Our Children? We should judge a nation by a simple metric: the number of weeping parents it allows, the small caskets it tolerates. By Esau McCaulley](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRmB_-TP0T-aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyMy8wMy8yOC9vcGluaW9uL2hvdy1jYW4td2UtYmUtYS1jb3VudHJ5LXRoYXQtZG9lcy10aGlzLXRvLW91ci1jaGlsZHJlbi5odG1sP2NhbXBhaWduX2lkPTM5JmVtYz1lZGl0X3R5XzIwMjMwMzMwJmluc3RhbmNlX2lkPTg4OTgwJm5sPW9waW5pb24tdG9kYXkmcmVnaV9pZD03NzY3NDk1MiZzZWdtZW50X2lkPTEyOTEzMSZ0ZT0xJnVzZXJfaWQ9YWE0OTFlZjdmMWQ5NjRlNDk3OWZiNzg0ZTc0ZTAxZDdXA255dEIKZCGTeiVk1a7TAlIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luOTBAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAA) [Continue reading the main story](#a11y-skip-universal-0) ADVERTISEMENT [Ad](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRmB_-TP0SXaHR0cHM6Ly9saXZlaW50ZW50Lm5ld3lvcmt0aW1lc2luZm8uY29tL2NsaWNrP3M9NTk3ODUmbGk9VFkmbT1hYTQ5MWVmN2YxZDk2NGU0OTc5ZmI3ODRlNzRlMDFkNyZwPVRZXzIwMjMwMzMwJnRlPTEmbmw9b3Bpbmlvbi10b2RheSZlbWM9ZWRpdF90eV8yMDIzMDMzMFcDbnl0QgpkIZN6JWTVrtMCUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW45MEBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAAAA~) Here’s what we’re focusing on today: Editors’ Picks [MICHELLE GOLDBERG The Most Important Election of 2023 Is Taking Place in Wisconsin A supreme court contest could break the right’s lock on the state. 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