The shootings at the elementary schools in Newtown, Connecticut, and Uvalde, Texas, have outsized purchase in the minds of Americans and Texans—and for good reason. The victims were mostly little kids. Even if you aren’t a parent, you were a child once, and with that experience in hand, it’s not too hard to imagine the terror of being hunted by a gunman and realizing the adults around you can’t do anything about it.But the mass shooting in October 2017 in Las Vegas is perhaps a better expression of the dull, banal horror of spree violence in the United States. School shootings can only happen to those who go to school or work there. In Las Vegas, a deranged real estate investor and gambler took up…
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