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This Is What a Return to Normal Looks Like

The return of high-profile gun massacres is, on some level, what it means for America to be America again.

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Jack Mirkinson
Mar 23, 2021
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We have been looking for signs of what America getting "back to normal" would look like, and now, it seems, we have found it: mass shootings are in the news again.

On Monday night, a gunman killed ten people at a Boulder, CO, grocery store. This follows the horrendous massacre of eight people at a string of Atlanta-area spas last week…

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