MAKE IT MAKE SENSE: Political violence

Thirteen years on from Sandy Hook, another weekend of mass shootings -- and a void of solutions

In today’s letter: A day after the Bondi Beach shooting, policy changes were already on the table in Australia. Why can’t the U.S. act?

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This past Sunday, December 14, marked the 13th anniversary of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, and the weekend was a terrible reminder of just how persistent gun violence remains. On Saturday, a still-unidentified assailant killed two and wounded nine on the campus of Brown University; on Sunday, at a Hanukkah celebration at Sydney, Australia’s Bondi Beach, a pair of shooters, father and son, killed 15 and wounded 40.

The response to the shootings, here and in Australia, was a reminder of how and why the problem remains so intractable in post-Sandy Hook America, why it doesn’t have to be that way, and what actual solutions can look like.

As if another reminder was necessary.