“This feels like the safest spot in America, and I just nearly got killed for getting a soda and a bag of chips.”

It seemed to have gone away…..

For the most part anyway.

No school in session…..so what seemed to be that monthly drumbeat of classroom shootings stopped. And memories faded. We had almost convinced ourselves that it had all been a bad dream.

But soon classrooms will be filled again. And nobody is saying out loud what is in their heads.

Because a “return to…