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On Monday of last week there was another mass shooting in the United States.

What a dreadful sentence to write, that is. It sounds so nonchalant, like something that just "is"; like saying "it snowed yesterday." It's fundamentally wrong and yet that is our reality.

I'd like to say that I remember a time when things weren't like this, but I don't. I was 4 years old when the Columbine shooting ha...