wakeflood
Regardless of which version of the “how we prevent these events” you ascribe to, there are a couple things that should be omnipresent.
1. We can’t ignore the issue any longer and pretend we’re shocked again next time. These are NOT isolated events. They are inextricably linked to a malady in our society. To deny that is to deny that change can and should happen.
2. We have to be willing to look at the long game. It took us a couple of generations to get this sick, it’s going to take at least that many to heal us.
I don’t know about anyone else, but I’m ashamed as an American that all we have to offer the murdered and their families are prayers and condolences time after time after time…
If that truly is the case, then each President might as well offer a prayer and thoughtful condolences to the future victims at every inaugural. At least the dead will know they were in our thoughts when they were alive.
Madness.