![]() ![]() We’ll keep tolerating political leaders who offer hearts and prayers but vote against any sensible gun safety legislation. It’s the longest running rerun in American media. We’ve been in jeopardy longer than “Jeopardy.”Įverything is the same, which is another way of saying that nothing will change. We’ll keep seeing it, reporting on it, absorbing it, processing it, wincing from it, moving past it. Hearts and prayers and condolences.Īnd the same shaking of our own heads and tightening of our own throats before we move on, expelling it with the flick of a thumb against the remote or a computer link. Same images of injured people, sprawled on the ground same rising numbers of casualties (five reported at 11 a.m., 13 at 11:30, 16 at 12:25) same yellow crime scene tape same swarm of stenciled windbreakers converging on the scene (NYPD, MTA, FBI, DHS, ATF) same politicians gathering in front of a nest of microphones – good people, well intentioned people, I believe – saying the same things we’ve heard for decades. Although in this case, I come upon one difference: the breaking voice of a WNBC News journalist as he reveals that his own children live in the neighborhood of the shooting.īut other than that, it’s all the same. Same images on the news same reports by journalists with few details to report. Same “Breaking News” urgently flashing on my screen. ![]() Another shooting, this time on a Brooklyn subway, and everything remains the same. ![]()
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