By Tuesday, Jan. 24, the United States had already recorded 39 mass shootings (minimum of four people injured or killed) — in big cities and small towns, in deliberate acts of savagery and random acts of senseless brutality, in homes, businesses, farms and streets.
The victims are Black, white, Hispanic and Asian; men and women; adults and — heaven help us — so many children.
No American community is spared the awful and indelible trauma of gun violence. And this will continue until we, as a society and as a nation, choose a different course.
