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Letter: Mindset that leads to massacres goes beyond weapons or objects
02212918 FLORIDA SHOOTING
An early morning fog rises Saturday, Feb. 17, 2018, in Parkland, Fla., where 17 memorial crosses were placed for the 17 deceased students and faculty from the Wednesday, Feb. 14, shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
Reports of the new horror in Florida contain an underlying assumption that mass shootings are somehow “normal,” or of long standing. This is not true; these ghastly crimes are grossly abnormal and recent. These massacres began in the 1960s and were quite rare until the late 1990s.