I liked the music group “Guns and Roses” but it is quite a metaphor for America’s continual treatment of mass gun murders by mentally disturbed young men.  It is especially creepy in learning they were able to pass our equally mentally disturbed background checks.  The theater acts repeat themselves. Disturbed individual accumulates an arsenal, obsesses on past and current slights or causes, hides in plain sight and then swoops down and annihilates an innocent group of citizens.   The community is shocked, the large number of police cars rush in followed by swaths of media trucks, microphones and reporters.  Next come the roses.

We start the candle light vigils, lots of flowers, prayers by all the preachers, rabbis and others from various faiths.  We wear ribbon pins and we huddle for some type of solace.  Funerals and eulogies follow and then it all fades from the news.  We return to our …