The repetition can dull the senses.
Mass shootings have become so regular it seems the public has built up emotional tolerance, perhaps as a defense so as not to become overwhelmed by the carnage.
We shake our heads and move on — to the next shooting. It’s hard to catch your breath because there is so little respite.
Shootings in Atlanta; Boulder, Colo.; Indianapolis, and Kenosha, Wis., come to mind because they are among the latest. Currently, mass shootings are averaging more than one a day. They have been part of the American experience for so long that the national soul-searching has become exhausting and, frankly, brief.