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Charlie Pierce: Our Capacity for Shock Is Finally Coming Back to Us

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Charlie Pierce: Our Capacity for Shock Is Finally Coming Back to Us
Charlie Pierce Esquire

So there was another crazy event at the Capitol on Friday and two people died. Earlier in the week, we had our third mass shooting in two weeks, this one in Los Angeles, in which four people died including a nine-year-old boy. We don’t yet know if the driver who smashed into a barricade at the Capitol and was shot after killing a Capitol Police officer had a clear motive, but the Los Angeles gunman was a cold, methodical killer.

Read the rest of Charlie Pierce’s piece at Esquire Politics