[Trigger warning for violence.]
"The two most common responses to violence in the U.S. are to ignore it or be entertained by it."—Bob Herbert, in another great column (although TW for ablist language), in which he OMG treats as self-evident the idea that violence doesn't exist in a hermetically sealed place separate from violent rhetoric.
Herbert also notes, quite rightly, that the next step is treating seriously the fact that we are "a society saturated in blood," where "more than a million people have been killed with guns in the United States since 1968, when Robert Kennedy and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. were killed."
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