Wiscasset had an exciting news week, with a new superintendent of schools picked who is a familiar face in the schools and town; and selectmen naming Wiscasset Community Center’s gym after the newly retired Wiscasset icon Robert MacDonald. 

Then, the state did something exciting that involves Wiscasset – awarding nearly $1 million to a Portland-based organization that does not yet have St. Philip’s Church’s or town nods to put in 12-single room housing units at the church. That all is still to come, if at all, and we shall follow how it turns out.

Then, in Nashville, Tennessee, the latest school shooting, this one with horrific video of the shooter shooting out a door to gain entry before calmly walking around, happened and had nothing I know of to do with Wiscasset, but became what I really wanted to write about, because Wiscasset has schools, too, and schoolchildren and the staff protecting them, and what happens in all these other places has to matter as much here, because guns, including automatic ones, still manage to get in the wrong hands and destroy everything that matters.

Make it harder for that to happen, whether it is improving mental health services, making guns harder to get in the hands of people who shoot children, or most likely of course, both.