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Vance wants shootings like the one at Annunciation to happen "less frequently." Um, how about never?

"A new generation, Gen Alpha, is now inheriting the same lessons, the same drills, the same dread," Haley Taylor Schlitz writes. "How have we allowed this to become the story of yet another childhood?"

"The Twin Cities DSA represents the beating heart of progressivism in our region -- it's time the DFL started treating us like partners, not problems," Cole Hanson writes.

"Republicans in Minnesota are once again deploying the classic tactics to thwart legislation they don't like: deny, distract, deny and redirect," Rochelle Olson writes.

"If we can save even one child's life, wouldn't it be worth it?" Tim Dean writes.

"The Overton window," John O'Sullivan writes, "does not move when it comes to guns, even when children are killed."

"Crisis demands layered solutions: stronger mental health systems, trained communities, smarter media coverage, safer schools -- and sensible gun policies," Violence Prevention Project Research Center cofounders write.

Prohibition will fail. Then what?

"For some Canadians the drift isn't just governmental but cultural and societal," John Rash writes. "That might make it much harder to revert to relationships Canadians and Americans enjoyed for generations."

The shattered safety of all-school Mass.