Beto O’Rourke and Plymouth, England Have the Right Response to Mass Shootings

We need to treat the trauma of these events seriously

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When someone hauls out a gun and starts shooting, it doesn’t just injure the people who get hit, it traumatizes the entire community. Add in the reach of modern media and the trauma spreads far and wide. How should we react?

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