Another day and another shooting — this time at the Empire State Building where it looks right now several people have been shot — at least one killed — by someone who was fired by a firm in the building a year or so ago. The NYPD appears to have shot and killed the shooter.
Details are still coming in on the news, but this is not the society we deserve — “People can’t be free if they are constantly at the mercy of an armed nut.”
The New Yorker writes about this as they try to gather up more information:
The President probably wasn’t told about the shooting, about eight hours earlier, of Ronald Wallace, Jr., in Brooklyn. He was thirteen years old and killed for no reason that his family can discern, they say, going to the store. The Empire State Building may be more visible, but both incidents, and the too many others this summer, point to some truths about guns in America: they escalate situations, whether workplace disputes or a angry man lashing out; they can be highly indiscriminate in the damage they do; and they are everywhere. We need to talk more about why.
Right.
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