Damian Galvan is a politically active student in Forsyth County where he is a high school senior. In this guest column, Damian denounces the lack of efforts to reduce gun violence, which has become a constant and feared presence in the lives of American students.

With his best friend and fellow Forsyth student Varoon Kodithala, Damian started the podcast Polititeen, saying, “I believe that conversations, whether they be locally, nationally, or globally, are crucial to creating progress.”

You continue to fail us.

In late November, four students at Oxford High School outside Detroit were shot dead and an all-too-common pattern began. Headlines focused on gun regulations and school shootings. Politicians who have not been inside a classroom in decades attempt to persuade us on the matter. The NRA telling us that good guys with guns are the solution. News commentators tellingus that regulations and background checks are the way to overcome this epidemic of gun violence.

Then, as quickly as a bullet leaves the chamber of a gun, the discourse will dissipate. […]