How many times have you heard this anguished and furious cry: “We must ensure that something like this will never happen again!” The “something like this” would apply to horrific events like the 9/11 attack on America by Islamist terrorists, the Japanese surprise attack on the U.S. Navy fleet at Pearl Harbor in 1941, and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln in 1865. Nonetheless, 13 other assassination attempts on U.S. presidents, three of them successful, happened again and again.

Many other terrible things repeatedly happen again. Like school shootings in Colorado, including the latest one at Evergreen High School, the sixth in this state starting with the 1999 shooting at Columbine High School. That emotional “never again” battle cry is fully understandable, but talk is cheap and the

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