Another week, another school shooting. Have we become inured to gun violence?

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◉ Again and again and again and again

Yesterday, a 16-year-old boy armed with a long gun shot and killed a teacher and three children ages 5, 8, and 11, and critically wounded a 7-year-old child and a 54-year-old teacher at a school in Bend, Oregon. This morning, the main topics of most of the news briefings stuffing my inbox were everything but that: Trump’s immorality. Elon Musk’s latest Roadster. Inflation. The midterms.

To their credit, The New York Times and CNN’s 5 Things newsletters both led with the shooting. But when I looked at the Times’ website this morning, I had to scroll down two screens before finding a story. CNN had it front and center.

Here’s my fear: That we have become inured to the gun violence permeating the country.

There have been 371 mass shootings so far this year. That’s nearly 9 per week. And more than once a week, one of those mass shootings has been at a school: 16 on college campuses, and 36 in K-12 schools or on school grounds, according to a CNN analysis of stats from the Gun Violence Archive.

(The Archive defines a mass shooting as an incident in which 4 or more people are killed or wounded, not including the shooter. Other groups classify mass shootings as those in which 3 or 4 people are killed.)

In those 52 school shootings this year, at least 32 people died and 50 other victims were injured.

Let’s look beyond just school shootings. Kids are at tremendous risk of being shot and killed in the US, according to Sandy Hook Promise:

GRAPHIC BY SANDY HOOK PROMISE