Sarah Beckstrom has died. Andrew Wolfe continues to fight for his life. Anger, desire for some kind of reckoning, and an inability to understand how something like this could happen are consuming many Americans right now – likely none more than the parents and families of Sarah and Andrew.

Sarah was just 20 years old. Andrew is 24. It feels unbearably unfair. What kind of world allows this? A broken one. It really is that simple.

The rage directed at the Afghan national responsible is real. You can see it online; you probably heard traces of it around a few Thanksgiving tables. Pretending it doesn’t exist won’t make it go away. And the consequences that Afghani will ultimately face should in no way be mitigated. His act was evil.

But that anger also leads to hard questions – questions t

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