Newtown, the collective grief was so overwhelming, I couldn’t bear to to write about it. What, really, could one say about a massacre of little school children? At the time, I thought, after the depth of such a tragedy, once and for all, some progress will be made in gun control. Now, I know, guns don’t kill people, people kill people. It’s true. It’s the hate in the heart, it’s the radicalized faith, it’s the mental illness. Yes, it’s all these things, all of these troubling things. These, or other troubling factors, may be the motivation in deciding to commit such an atrocity as a mass shooting. But the object common to all of these massacres is one thing and one thing only: the weapon. […]
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