![]() I’m not sure if I’ll stick with this new restriction - you might call it a waiting period - but I am convinced that, as with naming the killer, it would take some of the venom and vilification out of these “national discussions” if more people did the same. ![]() In the case of waiting to comment, it’s the reflexive, retreat-to-your-corners mentality that almost always prevails in the early hours after such a terrible thing happens and no one actually knows much about how and why it happened. In the case of naming the killer, it’s whatever infamy he might get from even that little bit of publicity. It’s of a piece with my other policy about these shootings, which is not to name the killer: My intent in both cases is to remove something counter-productive from the discussion. Let’s start with why I waited five days to write about it. Now, to those of you who demanded we talk about it on this blog, let’s talk. It has been five days since the horrific shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., and so my self-imposed restriction on posting about it has now expired.
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