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We cannot say it is none of us. Or that this is not local. The Las Vegas shooting has touched La Conner lives. The massacre is the story, the event everyone is discussing – or at least was last week. This is this month’s shooting. It is true that violence is American as cherry pie. It is true that America is unique. Our individual and collective acquiescence to violence in our society provides the permission for shootings to continue. We allow the epidemic of killing to go on. By not stopping this sickness we are responsible for it. T...
One. “The largest massacre in modern American history.” Two. The definition of a massacre is premeditated killing of large numbers “of usually helpless or unresisting human beings under circumstances of atrocity or cruelty.” Three. I hardly ever check Facebook. When I did last week, Audrey, a “friend,” a Native American from Minnesota, had posted the fact and history of Wounded Knee, the December 1890 massacre of some 300 Lakotas by the U.S. Army’s Seventh Calvary. Four. As a journalist, words are my currency. Word choice, and what gets emp...
