A familiar horror strikes again in Santa Clarita
by Mary Sanchez, Tribune Content Agency
Nov 15, 2019
3 minutes
There's a cadence to the aftermath of school shootings.
Everyone plays their role, including journalists both near and far from the scene.
When news from Santa Clarita, Calif., began breaking, and #schoolshooting started trending on Twitter, it was rote to set aside the work that had consumed the first hours of my day: studies of the U.S-Mexico border.
Reflexively, I began a perverse calculation that in itself was a striking admission of how routine thinking can become
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