BY GLENN MOLLETTE

Do parents in America want to spend every school day hoping and praying their children will not be heinously murdered? Do children want to spend their days constantly looking up to see who might be entering their room with an assault weapon? Do you want to walk the grocery store aisles wondering if someone has picked your store and this day to shoot at you? Do you enjoy sitting in a house of worship knowing that if a crazed gunman enters your location, the exit doors are very few?

Movie theatres are anticipating a major boost in attendance this summer. Can you go in peace knowing that your life could be in danger if someone enters with a semi-automatic weapon or an AR-15?

The list of possibilities is almost endless as restaurants, sporting events, concerts, shopping malls, and more are targets of those who plot evil rampages against innocent people.

Uvalde, Texas, and Buffalo, N.Y., are the recent locations of horrific killings of the very young and elderly American people doing everyday life – going to school and buying groceries.

When will this happen at your school, grocery store, house of worship or elsewhere?

At one time, Americans never imagined such horrors as many of us have lived to see. One mass shooting has led to another and another. Your school or church — or whatever the event is — must plan for an attack every time you gather.  If we do not try to protect the people at such events and gatherings, then we are throwing caution to the wind and subjecting people we love to the possibility of being killed.