Song of the Day 5/17: Cheryl Wheeler, “If It Were Up to Me”

Folksinger Cheryl Wheeler wrote this in 1998, in the aftermath of the Jonesboro, Ark., school shootings. They were shocking at the time because the murderers were just 13 and 11 years old, but Columbine happened the next year so Jonesboro is largely forgotten. No wonder — there have been more than 230 school shootings since.

The Buffalo massacre was perpetrated by yet another teenager with a gun, but everybody seems to know who to blame for this one.