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The horror that won’t stop happening

Crosses outside Santa Fe High School bear the names of the 10 victims of the May 18 shooting

IT HAS BECOME A WAKING NATIONAL NIGHTMARE, a recurring horror that we can’t explain or defend but that we are condemned to repeat. We know it will happen again. We seem helpless to stop it.

The latest nightmare began on May 18 with the news: there had been another school shooting. This time, it unfolded at Santa Fe High School in Santa Fe, Texas, a town of about 12,000 people clustered

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