Gunfire Erupts at a School. Leaders Offer Prayers. Children Are Buried. Repeat.
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Gunfire Erupts at a School. Leaders Offer Prayers. Children Are Buried. Repeat.
Even the dark humor in the headline of a satirical story in The Onion, first published in 2014, has since been stripped of
any mirth, leaving only a dark, accepted truth: “‘No Way to Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens.”
Last month, in the wake of another school shooting
that you may have already forgotten — a 15-year-old boy killing two classmates and wounding 18 other people in Kentucky — a former F. B.I.
On Wednesday, it was Scott Israel, the sheriff of Florida’s Broward County, who stepped forward to announce the toll
of a massacre inside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School: 17 children and adults dead, another 16 wounded.
Senator Chris Murphy, a Connecticut Democrat whose state experienced the Sandy Hook massacre, once
again denounced the inaction by Congress to properly address the “epidemic” of school shootings.
Senator Marco Rubio, a Florida Republican who has benefited from N. R.A.
largess over the years, expressed his sadness about another mass shooting in his state
— remember the Pulse nightclub shooting in 2016 that left 49 dead and dozens wounded?
“I spent four years dealing with these kinds of events after Sandy Hook,” said the former agent, Katherine
W. Schweit, a co-author of a study of 160 active shooting incidents in the United States.
And in 2012, a gunman walked into the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., and killed 20 children, none older than 7, and six adults.
Even the dark humor in the headline of a satirical story in The Onion, first published in 2014, has since been stripped of
any mirth, leaving only a dark, accepted truth: “‘No Way to Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens.”
Last month, in the wake of another school shooting
that you may have already forgotten — a 15-year-old boy killing two classmates and wounding 18 other people in Kentucky — a former F. B.I.
On Wednesday, it was Scott Israel, the sheriff of Florida’s Broward County, who stepped forward to announce the toll
of a massacre inside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School: 17 children and adults dead, another 16 wounded.
Senator Chris Murphy, a Connecticut Democrat whose state experienced the Sandy Hook massacre, once
again denounced the inaction by Congress to properly address the “epidemic” of school shootings.
Senator Marco Rubio, a Florida Republican who has benefited from N. R.A.
largess over the years, expressed his sadness about another mass shooting in his state
— remember the Pulse nightclub shooting in 2016 that left 49 dead and dozens wounded?
“I spent four years dealing with these kinds of events after Sandy Hook,” said the former agent, Katherine
W. Schweit, a co-author of a study of 160 active shooting incidents in the United States.
And in 2012, a gunman walked into the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., and killed 20 children, none older than 7, and six adults.