I am at a loss to understand the events of the last few days.  The school shooting, a hospital shooting, a mall shooting.  We clearly, desperately, need open, legitimate, reasoned and in-depth conversations about gun control, mental illness, societal disconnect, compassion and obligation to the our society as a whole.  But I can't do that on my own, today.  What I can do today, on my own, is post this.  More will come.  I refuse to accept mass gun violence as just another day in America.  But for now...