After the Minneapolis shooting, Mayor Frey calls for solutions that cross every divide. Today, as children gathered for their first-week-of-school Mass inside Annunciation Catholic School, violence shattered what should have been one of the safest and most sacred spaces. An 8-year-old and a 10-year-old were killed. Fifteen children and two adults were wounded. In moments like this, the temptation is to fall back into politics—to draw battle lines, to argue sides. But grief does not divide itself along party lines. Fear does not discriminate by ideology. These families are not statistics or symbols; they are parents whose children will never come home. We cannot undo what happened, but we can refuse to accept this as normal. We can recognize that mourning alone will not keep other families safe. That finger pointing doesn’t lead to progress. And we can move past words into action. Real, practical, effective solutions exist—but they will only last if we’re willing to build them togeth...