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    Mark Z. Barabak: Texas school shooting was 'incomprehensible'? No, it's just another day in America

    Just another day in America. Mass shootings have become so common — along with the reflexive partisan response — we now assign them to specific subcategories: The ones that targeted Blacks, Latinos, Jews or people of Asian descent. The ones on college campuses. The ones in office buildings. It helps us more easily sort the carnage and show the depths of depravity. So the taxonomy: The ...
    by Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times May 26, 2022 3 minutes
    U.S. flags, across New York Bay from the Statue of Liberty, fly at half-mast at Liberty State Park in Jersey City, New Jersey, on May 25, 2022, as a mark of respect for the victims of the May 24 shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.

    Just another day in America.

    Mass shootings have become so common — along with the reflexive partisan response — we now assign them to specific subcategories: The ones that targeted Blacks, Latinos, Jews or people of Asian descent. The ones on college campuses. The ones in office buildings.

    It helps us more easily sort the carnage and show the depths of depravity.

    So the taxonomy: The slaughter Tuesday of 19 children and two adults at an

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