#NoPublicity

Matthew Arnold Stern
2 min readOct 21, 2021
Someone who should remain in shadows

Families deserve to have their loved ones remembered and to be spared any unnecessary pain. Murderers should not be glamorized or held up for emulation. But at some point, we as a society have to examine why someone could commit such a heinous act so we can prevent such violence in the future.

It’s easy to simplify a horrific event into a single cause. But Stoneman Douglas resulted from multiple failures over the years. Why weren’t his…

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Matthew Arnold Stern

A novelist and award-winning public speaker and technical writer. My novels Amiga and The Remainders are available now.