A letter to David Hogg
March 28, 2018 David Hogg Marjory Stoneham Douglas High School 5901 Pine Island Road Parkland, Florida 33076 Dear Mr. Hogg, You are currently in possession of a highly valuable but fungible commodity. You have the attention of the media, a long list of politicians, and much of the American public. Thus far, media reports indicate that this attention is focused exclusively on how Nikolas Cruz and so many others like him were able to commit their crimes. Entirely ignored is the question of why they even wanted to commit those crimes in the first place. I’ve been asking why since before Luke Woodham shot several of his classmates in Pearl, Mississippi on October 1, 1997 and most of the time I’ve encountered some combination of avoidance, ridicule, and hostility. On those rare occasions when a discussion is begun, it tends to be dominated by those who display an almost pathological need for a simple minded, single point of failure e...