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canyonwalkerOops, it happened again. Another week, another mass-shooting tragedy.
On Wednesday a gunman entered a hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and killed four people. Example news coverage: CNN article, updated 3 Jun 2022.
I've written before about the challenge of writing about mass shooting tragedies. As a writer I want time to process what happened about them first. The problem is they keep happening. They keep happening faster than we can even sort out the facts about them.
I still have things I want to write about the mass-shooting at a supermarket in Buffalo, NY, two weeks ago. But before I had time to write about that, 19 kids and 2 teachers were killed at an elementary school in Uvalde, TX. And during the several days I've held off writing further about that tragedy— since my blog is not primarily a crime blotter— now there's been a mass shooting in Tulsa.
I hate to ask, "How many more will die?" before I get around to writing about these. Because while it sounds like a cruel rhetorical question it's actually a frighteningly real question. The fact is if it takes me several days to finish writing about not-murder related stuff on my blog there will probably be another mass shooting in that time.
On Wednesday a gunman entered a hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and killed four people. Example news coverage: CNN article, updated 3 Jun 2022.
I've written before about the challenge of writing about mass shooting tragedies. As a writer I want time to process what happened about them first. The problem is they keep happening. They keep happening faster than we can even sort out the facts about them.
I still have things I want to write about the mass-shooting at a supermarket in Buffalo, NY, two weeks ago. But before I had time to write about that, 19 kids and 2 teachers were killed at an elementary school in Uvalde, TX. And during the several days I've held off writing further about that tragedy— since my blog is not primarily a crime blotter— now there's been a mass shooting in Tulsa.
I hate to ask, "How many more will die?" before I get around to writing about these. Because while it sounds like a cruel rhetorical question it's actually a frighteningly real question. The fact is if it takes me several days to finish writing about not-murder related stuff on my blog there will probably be another mass shooting in that time.
