Officers at the Alamance County trailer park after a shootout that left two people dead April 8. Last weekend, we talked about a tale of two crises: As the coronavirus pandemic, which is still a gargantuan challenge, decreases in intensity, the gun violence epidemic one again floods into the spotlight. That was just as true last week when a mass shooting claimed six lives near Rock Hill, South Carolina, as it was this week when eight people were shot and killed at a And the gun violence hasn't been limited to mass killings that capture nationwide headlines. It's a problem that reaches nearly every nook and cranny in America, in the Carolinas, in greater Charlotte.