So the taxonomy: The slaughter Tuesday of 19 children and two adults at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, was first thought to be the deadliest of the kind since 2018, when 14 students and three teachers were killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. But as the toll climbed, we needed to reach back further to rank its atrocity, to nearly a decade ago when 20 elementary school children and six teachers and faculty were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. If that wasn’t enough to break the political logjam and move Congress to act on gun control, it was said at the time, nothing will. The forces arrayed against gun control will not relent. Which helps explain why 21 more people died at an elementary school in Texas on just another day in America.

Source: Los Angeles Times May 26, 2022 20:11 UTC