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Excerpt from a Carl Hiaasen column written in February in the wake of the Stoneman Douglas shooting
https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/carl-hiaasen/article200659634.html
Because this is how we live today in America, where any demented soul can get his hands on an AR-15.
It isn’t enough to lecture our kids about wearing seat belts, or not texting while they drive. Now we need to lecture them about what to do when bullets start flying.
They’re not perfectly safe in school. Or at the movies. Or at a concert. Or at the mall. Or even inside a church.
Columbine, Aurora, Blacksburg, Newtown, Las Vegas, Orlando, San Bernardino, Sutherland Springs and many more — the town of Parkland goes high on the worst-ever list of domestic gun massacres, and the list will grow.
By now, each new horror story arrives with a crushing familiarity, capped by the same pathetic, canned responses from do-nothing political leaders. After every bloodbath, they recycle a well-practiced script.
Carl's brother Rob was one of the victims of the shooting at the Annapolis Capital Gazette yesterday.