Can we agree about gun safety?
On the radio last week, I heard a police officer being interviewed about the shootings in his town of Roseberg, Oregon. He said something like, “We’re just in shock. Things like this always happen somewhere else, not in a town like ours.”
I was surprised to hear this. I take it for granted that, someday, a public shooting is going to happen in a town, school, or church near me, maybe at a time when I happen to be there. “I’ll see you tonight,” I have found myself saying to my husband, “if I don’t get shot.”
Shootings are grossly relatable. They happen in the most ordinary communities across the nation, and in the most ordinary of places: classrooms, movie theaters, workplaces, shopping centers, churches.
