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I've watched what collectiveized fear has done to law and policy in the post-9/11 era, when again, people had good reason to be scared. there's much in that record that serves as a cautionary tale. so the challenge for us as a culture and citizens and political leaders and those in the media, as we choose how and when to cover these incidents is how to be clear-eyed to the threat posed by gun violence and white supremacist extremist violence and the dark nihilistic spree shooters without succumbing to the very sense of fear and paranoia and panic they seek to impose. d panic they seek to impos...

Of fear that mass shootings create will be channeled to ever-more draconian impingements on other liberties. the guns stay, but we want the state to guard every school like a garrison, monitor every chat board, involuntarily commit those with mental health problems and on and on and on. i've watched what collectiveized fear has done to law and policy in the post-9/11 era, when again, people had good reason to be scared. there's much in that record that serves as a cautionary tale. so the challenge for us as a culture and citizens and political leaders and those in the media, as we choose how a...