Opinion: A mass shooting in Long Beach kills three, wounds nine. Few people notice (via latimesopinion)
consuming Washington. You also didn’t see the traditional expressions of thoughts and prayers from political figures in a position to actually do something about gun violence.
This time the scene was just a house in Long Beach. Three people shot dead, at least nine more people wounded with varying degrees of severity, so a dozen people in all lying dead or bleeding in a scene of carnage discovered after neighbors heard what some estimated to be 20 or so gun shots. It’s the everyday nature of this incident that should offend the public consciousness. Details will unfold, at least for those still paying attention, about the context. Maybe it was gang-related. Maybe someone who was kicked out of a party returned with a weapon to avenge a social slight with gunfire. Maybe a former lover poured out his jealousy in a stream of bullets.Maybe this, maybe that, each with a built-in rationalization for those who seek them.
The context is important to the specifics of this particular crime, of course, but not to the broader issue. Because whatever the shooter’s motive, if a gun hadn’t been handy, a dozen people would not have been shot. Three people would not be dead, and at least nine others wouldn’t be clinging to life or facing a
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