WASHINGTON

In the wake of the public shootings of strangers, especially when innocent children are the victims, there are lies which we tell ourselves and true things some dare not say.

Two children were killed and 17 other people were injured in the Wednesday mass shooting at the Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis. A Minnesota Star Tribune headline got it right: “This is evil.”

I’ll tell you the phrase that no longer works: “We have to do something so that this never happens again.” It is the chant most often heard after these senseless slaughters. It does not and cannot ward off the evil in this world. It only serves to showcase how helpless adults feel in the aftermath.

We have to do something — the phrase often used as a prelude to calls for tougher gun laws. Minnesota ran

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