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"The cost of allowing weapons of war on our streets is our children's bodies, and our Constitution does not burden us with paying that price," Megan Walsh writes.

"Stop centering the despicable actions of mass shooters," Kelly Moller writes. "Their perspectives do not matter."

"Politicians will argue. Pundits will divide. But what we need most right now is something simpler and more human," Michael Arenson writes.

"The Minneapolis mayor eloquently met the horrific moment by redirecting clichéd commentary into a plea for something more," Rochelle Olson writes.

To that Minneapolis mother running barefoot: We were all right behind you.

"It's not our preparedness that's the problem. It's the guns," Maggie Kelly writes.

Chelsie Thoren survived the 2024 shooting at Perry High School with her 7-year-old daughter. She wrote this poem after the Annunciation Church mass shooting.

"For me, the decision to attend UMM was life changing," Mark Koehn writes.

Kids have questions. We have no answers.

"I think how easy it must be to pray when your students are not the ones facing gunfire amid their morning mass," high school junior Lydia Ganser writes.