A day after the Shaun White victory in the halfpipe, we have another school shooting. We’re numb to that. It would be downright tedious if it weren’t so tragic.
Let’s face it: there are enough people in this country who treat guns as religious icons to prevent any meaningful progress on this issue. As far as they’re concerned, the lives of a few kids here and there are a price worth paying to protect their rights. And so the story goes on, and on, and on. . .