Two children — 8 and 10 years old — died Wednesday celebrating Mass.

They were killed in Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis when a gunman shot through the windows of the church, which was filled with parents, teachers and students celebrating Annunciation Catholic School’s return to the classroom. Seventeen others were injured.

Police are calling this a deliberate act of violence. We can’t help but remember something the folks from the American Jewish Committee said when they visited us earlier this year. “If they come for us on Saturday, they’ll come for you on Sunday.”

The point is that targeted violence, once emboldened, engenders a bigger target, one that encompasses not just one group but others. It was a prescient statement to make back in February.

Here we are in August

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