Why does something have to be common place before people are upset about it?

"Man beats his wife to death in front of their 5 children." -some made up headline.

What's the big deal? Out of that family of 7, only one person died.


I understand that it was fashionable to point out the statistics in the face of defending 2A rights when this first started happening. We need to be careful not to be too cavalier about the numbers. The entire student body, and staff, and immediate family members are all likely irreversibly damaged by being present during the murder of others, and possibly narrowly escaping their own. The tragedy certainly expands well beyond the body count. I don't want to down play suicides either, as many of those families will take them just as hard as school shootings. More than one terrible thing can happen at once, but it doesn't mean that any of them deserve less attention. That's my current position anyway.