Leave Lincoln Out of This

Another horrific act of mass murder targeting young school children and their teachers has forced the nation into what has become a terribly routinized pattern of grief.

Even before the facts were known, this criminal act fast became an occasion for political debate—an activity that provides a sense of agency to those who, in fact, can only witness the horror and share the grief of those who experienced it. This terroristic assault is not without a policy dimension, and there have been thoughtful proposals designed to address the conditions that contributed to it. There have also been somewhat less helpful but natural expressions of passion and anguish.

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