Last
night, a terrorist attack in Strasbourg left two dead, one brain-dead, and
twelve injured. This attack has shocked people around the world. French police
responded immediately and are looking diligently for the shooter, whose
identity is known and whose face has been broadcast everywhere.
Very
quickly les citoyens strasbourgeoises
created memorials to the slain.
(Photos from http://www.francetvinfo.fr.)
This was
the same response that I saw in July 2016 when the citizens of Strasbourg
created memorials for the victims of the terrorist attack in Nice.
While
the horror of this attack cannot be ignored, I must remind my readers that
there were more people killed, thirteen in all, on October 27 at a bar in
Thousand Oaks, California. That was the 307th mass shooting in
America. America has so many mass shootings that people here and around the
world quickly forget them.
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