The Silence in Kelly Clarkson’s Call for ‘Action’ on Mass Shootings
At the Billboard Music Awards, the pop star asked for a “moment of action” after the massacre in Santa Fe, Texas—but kept quiet on what might prevent the next horror.
The script for what happens after a mass shooting—the thoughts, the prayers, the arguments, the forgetting—has come to, even, include mourning that such a script exists at all. At least as far back as 2012, after the killings in Aurora, Colorado, my colleagues were writing about “”and “.” This year, after theParklandshooting, the contours of the massacre and the mourning process. The predictions have been now fulfilled, inevitably,
