WATCHING MY GRANDDAUGHTER’S GYMNASTICS CLASS WHILE CONGRESS DEBATES AR-15s By Andrew Hidas Everything to live for, the everything stretched out before them, gamboling like lambs let loose to bound and bound in the tall grasses of spring. Parents on their phones up above, a half-eye at most diverted from Facebook, the glowing faces of their daughters lost in the jumble of limbs below. “He shot my friend that was next to me and…
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There has been another shooting… The names and locales and exact number of victims begin to intermingle and fade into each other over time as a wearying sequence of outrage, grief and calls to do something give way to a series of volleys that see the left and right political flanks in our country dig deeper into their respective trenches of outrage tinged with near despair on the left and dismissive gun rights absolutism on the right. “When will this insanity stop? When will enough people say, ‘Stop this madness!’? Too many have died. We should say to ourselves, ‘Not…