Americans have been confronted by another school shooting that took the lives of at least two children at a back-to-school Mass at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis.

The response has been what it always is. Sadness. Prayers. Support. Outrage. Then comes what always comes. Acceptance.

We've become so accustomed to the amount of violence in our schools that, inevitably, we collectively accept that this is part of the American experience.

Today, we want to use the USA TODAY Opinion Forum to ask our readers a straightforward question. Why? Why do you feel that the country has decided that school shootings are part of our normal?

Have we normalized school shootings? Will gun violence ever end?

We realize we'll get very political answers. That's fine. But we're hoping some of you will have something meaningful to say about why our children have to experience and see so much violence on school campuses and why there doesn’t seem to be a solution coming anytime soon.

It comes down to one question that can give rise to many answers: Why haven’t we been able to fix the gun violence problem in American schools?

Take our poll below or send us an email with the subject line "Forum school shootings" to forum@usatoday.com. We'll publish a collection of your responses.

Louie Villalobos is Gannett's director of Opinion. You can find him playing video games with his son, hoping we start caring about our children.

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Minneapolis school shooting demands the same question: Why? Tell us. | Opinion

Reporting by Louie Villalobos, USA TODAY / USA TODAY

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