We didn’t publish any football-related content on Chiefs Wire today. The reason should be obvious.
As a writer, words don’t often fail me. I tend to take refuge in them. In my ability to manipulate language to express one thing or another.
Wednesday’s shooting at Union Station has left me without anything to say.
There are always things to write, and Chiefs Wire will be back to “normal” tomorrow. Posts will be written, content published, and the blog will return to its regularly scheduled programming.
What we won’t be doing, however, is moving on.
While Wednesday’s massacre won’t be a topic of discussion on this forum after this post, it won’t leave our minds.
Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims, witnesses, law enforcement, and everyone affected by the senseless act of violence that left one person dead, nearly a dozen children injured and several others wounded.
We desperately wish that we could offer more than our thoughts and prayers. A solution. Meaningful assistance. Substantive change that would keep events like Wednesday’s shooting from happening.
But we, as mere individuals, can’t.
There will have to be a collective effort by the good people of Kansas City and folks around the country to right the wrong that happened on Wednesday.
Until that collective effort comes to pass, we on Chiefs Wire will wait, anxiously, for a day when the violence ends and people everywhere can live together in peace.