Thinking about school shootings now

We have another one of these horrific things now, with the common slip-slide downward discourse taking place: now everyone is arguing over whether white offenders get taken into custody too peacefully, and whether we should use the word “terrorist” to describe them. We’ve been having these semantic arguments since 2015, if not since 1999, and if not since Kent State in ’68 or whenever that was. The semantic arguments make…