In the almost five years since a gunman killed 49 people in the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, similar tragedies have snuffed out precious lives in a synagogue, church, supermarket, two high schools, including one right here in Florida, and other places we once innocently presumed were safe.
As everyday people clamor for a stop to this uniquely American carnage, political leaders mostly offer an empty panacea of “thoughts and prayers.”
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