This past week there was yet another tragic mass shooting, this time at the Borderline Bar and Grill in Thousand Oaks, Calif. Twelve people were killed before the gunman fatally turned the gun on himself. It’s an all too common scene. According to the Gun Violence Archive, which defines mass shootings as an incident in which four or more people are killed or injured, there was one almost every day of the past two weeks, another just Saturday in Tennessee.
And as journalists, we are now covering mass shootings not once, not twice but repeatedly as they happen more frequently across the country. And we’re finding people who’ve been through more than one in their lifetime.
Familiar and heartbreaking script
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