The contours of this latest atrocity are depressingly familiar. The suspected assailant bought two assault weapons on his eighteenth birthday. We still don't have a motive for what's happened, but the big picture point is that active shooter incidents are becoming very anddisturbingly common. Since 20 17, they've nearly doubled, according to fbi data. And since andy hook, there have been 900 shootings on school grounds.
After 19 children and two adults were
gunned down in Texas, we ask why gun laws are actually loosening in many states and why even moderate gun controls do not get passed. The
rapid spread of monkeypox has rattled a covid-weary world; how much
cause for concern is there? And why teams of professional writers are
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