“In retrospect, Sandy Hook marked the end of the U.S. gun control debate,” British columnist Dan Hodges wrote in 2015. “Once America decided killing children was bearable, it was over.”

The post has since been shared on X over 150,000 times, and with good reason. The number of mass shootings per year in the United States has been rising over the past decade, and in that time the gun death rate among children and teens has risen over 100 percent . Guns are now the leading cause of death for the nation’s kids. Americans are growing numb to gun-related tragedies, including at schools, and meaningful reform seems like a pipe dream. There are lawmakers and advocacy groups fighting admirably to enact legislation, but barring some dramatic reconfiguration of Congress and its priorities, th

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