It’s not just the mass shootings. It’s the one-offs. The irrationally angry and misguided gunman who walks into a store that’s displaying a gay pride flag and shoots the owner to death. Senseless, gut-wrenching, shocking, breathtakingly violent. Another life snuffed. Just like that.
And we all die a bit more.
Well, except for the far right and homophobes everywhere, who probably think the guy did the world a favor and wonder what all the fuss is about.