The tragedy this week at Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis marked the first school shooting of the new school year. It's heartbreaking and outrageous to have to note that there will almost certainly be more. Education Week , which tracks shootings at K through 12 schools, says there were more than two dozen during the last school year.

Once again, we hear about children — children — crying and scrambling to try to protect one another in a place where they should be safe. We sputter for words that have become dulled from repetition — like "tragic," "heartbreaking," and "outrageous" — because, as Minnesota's Governor Tim Walz said this week at one of the press conferences of grim-faced public officials, "There shouldn't be words for these types of incidents since they should not

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