We Need to Talk About Guns, Mass Shootings, and War

We’ve ignored our embrace of violence as fun and how mass shootings became commonplace

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I returned home from Iraq before Christmas 2007. The PlayStation 3 had dropped during my time in combat, but became a hard commodity to come by, so I assumed I’d grab one for Christmas. As with any product around the holidays, it…