Spare Me Your Prayers for Lafayette

Last night, a lone gunman entered a theater in Lafayette, Louisiana and opened fire, killing two and wounding seven before taking his own life.The setting was different, but the scene very much the same. After all,as this map from Voxof mass shootings in the U.S. since Sandy Hook makes clear, this isn’t exactly a rare occurrence anymore:

The reaction yesterday evening was what we’ve come to expect in the wake of such violence. Some people state facts and statistics about gun prevalence, use, a...