because quite honestly if at this point you cannot think about how one of these things happens, then you haven t been paying attention and if we don t speak about it then they re going to keep on happening. i mean i think when you say bobby jindal gets up and says who would believe this happened here? let s go through the history of louisiana. shall we? the riots in 1866 the colfax mass massacre, in alabama there were 540 lynchings between the 1880s and 1950s in louisiana. so don t tell me that public violence is unthinkable. we ve thought about it a lot. there is going to be obviously, another round of the thing that happens in the wake of these, a conversation about gun violence, a conversation about gun u gun safety. you have been chronicleing politics for a long time. you ve seen ups and downs. you ve seen issues stall and then break through.