Washington Ceasefire

I got an email recently from the father of a young man whose life was tragically cut short by gun violence last year. He is making an effort to send updates about the trial of the young man accused of killing his son. The father wrote of how incredibly de-sensitized we are to gun violence. A person in the pool of prospective jurors who heard of his son's story explained that he had given the story passing attention -- just another shooting. The father wrote that he had felt the same way, too, until it was his son.

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