Processing the Unthinkable

In the wake of more mass shootings, the most recent involving so many precious children, we are again replaying our typical responses. Let's refuse to condemn anyone for how they respond to the unthinkable. School shootings in particular are situations where parents everywhere play out in their minds the hypothetical scenario of this happening to their own children. I don't envision I will ever have a rational or emotionally measured response to that exercise.