(12-22-17) Sandra Luckow is a documentary maker who teaches film production at Yale University School of Art, Columbia University and Barnard College. In April, I described her powerful film, “That Way Madness Lies…” as one of the most honest and haunting documentaries about mental illness that I had watched. It will be released officially in 2018. Meanwhile, you can read about it and watch its trailer here.
Who is to blame for the mass shootings? We are.
Guest Blog By Sandra Luckow
On this fifth anniversary of the mass shooting in Sandy Hook, in light of all that has not changed as a result of that tragedy, I have made a decision.
If I ever find myself trapped by a gunman, I will let him shoot me. I don’t want to survive. I don’t think I’ll even make an attempt to do so. I’ve spent too many years dodging bullets and crying for help.
Why is this mass shooting, so remote from me, causing nightmares and snuffing out my hope? It was, after all, just the first in an unprecedented onslaught of killings.
In my mind, however, with each subsequent shooting, the odds increase that shooter will be my brother and I will be one of the victims.