Editorial: Let’s ‘do something’ that will make a difference - Gainesville Times

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Editorial: Let’s ‘do something’ that will make a difference

Base efforts to stop mass shootings on better enforcement, communications, school security

Crosses and flowers hang on a fence near Majority Stoneman Douglas High School, near Parkland, Fla., on Saturday, Feb. 16, 2018, in memory of the 17 people killed in a school shooting there. - photo by Associated Press

02182018 GUNS EDITORIAL — Crosses and flowers hang on a fence near Majority Stoneman Douglas High School, near Parkland, Fla., on Saturday, Feb. 16, 2018, in memory of the 17 people killed in a school shooting there. - photo by Associated Press

As a heartbroken nation mourns victims of the latest mass shooting at a Florida high school, the same plaintive cries echo like a chorus in perfect harmony: “Why don’t we do something?”