Politics should be unusual

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Editor,

I wrote this for the Independent back in 2012 right after the Sandy Hook massacre. Four years and countless mass shootings later, it does indeed look like “politics as usual.”

“It was hard to speak, never mind write about something after last week’s tragic shooting, an event so horrible and beyond comprehension that it will remain a collective wound to our nation’s psyche for a very long time.

“The debate on gun control, mental health, and this country’s culture of violence will go into chatter overtime – peak – subside and return only when the next inevitable ‘record breaking’ mass shooting occurs. Politics as usual.”

John Rankine

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