Well, it has been decided — after Odessa, if not after Sandy Hook, or Las Vegas, or Parkland. Things cannot continue like this. To keep going, we will have to give up certain things.
We will have to give up, first of all, the feeling that we are safe anywhere. At prayer. At work. At school. On the way home.
We are lucky if we ever had this feeling to give up. We will have to give up the notion that there is anywhere this could not happen, that there is a single place — a concert, a highway, a shopping center — where we should not be afraid.