Texas school shooting was 'incomprehensible'?


Relatives and friends visiting the memorials for victims of the mass shooting at a Texas elementary school, in City of Uvalde Town Square. – AFP

JUST another day in America.

Mass shootings have become so common – along with the reflexive partisan response – we now assign them to specific subcategories: The ones that targeted Blacks, Latinos, Jews or people of Asian descent. The ones on college campuses. The ones in office buildings.

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