(RNS) — Sutherland Springs is now one more name inextricably linked to murderous gun carnage in America. Even a partial listing of recent bloody assaults is chilling, and the number of domestic killing fields in our nation is rapidly increasing: Texas and South Carolina houses of worship, a Colorado movie theater, a Planned Parenthood facility, a Connecticut elementary school, a Nevada country music festival, a Florida nightclub, a Virginia university.
No person is safe and no physical location provides total security.
But we can permanently eliminate three overused and well-known linguistic phrases that prevent us from recognizing the grim reality, the brutal truth of gun violence in the United States. These stale phrases are frequently invoked after a mass shooting and they provide, especially for political leaders, the necessary and shallow protective cover that allows them to take no action on meaningful gun control.
No person is safe and no physical location provides total security.
But we can permanently eliminate three overused and well-known linguistic phrases that prevent us from recognizing the grim reality, the brutal truth of gun violence in the United States. These stale phrases are frequently invoked after a mass shooting and they provide, especially for political leaders, the necessary and shallow protective cover that allows them to take no action on meaningful gun control.
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