Something happened this weekend and we're going to do our best to address it now while

appreciating that we might not be the best people to talk about it.

But on Saturday a gunman entered a supermarket and a black neighborhood in Buffalo with an

assault weapon and shot 13 people killing 10 of them.

It's an absolute nightmare.

And worse, it's a story we've now seen dozens and dozens of times.

And this time there was a small detail in the reporting from the New York Times of

ComiI.

Just this one sentence, a gun dealer who said he sold the suspect and assault weapon

in recent months described a routine transaction.

We live in a country and I don't know when it happened.

Where an 18 year old boy goes into a gun dealership to buy an assault weapon and it's a routine

transaction under the same legal system that won't let a person buy a six pack of

a bud light because it would be dangerous.

But an assault rifle, that's routine now.

The implication is that 18 year old boys go into that gun dealer and buy weapons of war

regularly.

When a cable news host opens a show with a red faced rant about white people being replaced,

that's considered a typical episode of that show.

Routine and typical.

Words like shocking and stunning are slowly draining out of the conversation about mass shootings

and words like routine and typical are taking their place.

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