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Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
National
Thomas Curwen

Our psychological armor helps us cope with mass shootings, but numbs us to the destruction

LOS ANGELES — The news of the mass shooting in Monterey Park broke early last Sunday morning and crashed into the expectations of a new day. Details were slow to develop — a gunman still at large — but soon enough the scope of the tragedy was laid bare.

"Ten people were killed and at least 10 others were injured when a gunman opened fire at a ballroom dance studio. ..."

"The shooting occurred off a main thoroughfare of Monterey Park, Calif., that earlier in the day had hosted a festival celebrating the eve of the Lunar New Year, a major holiday in many Asian communities. ..."

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