Weighing the Dead

Children are heavier.

Beto O’Rourke, before being thrown out of the meeting for challenging the narrative on guns.

I’m in Massachusetts right now, tending to a gravely ill aunt and to the needs of my extended family. I hadn’t planned to write anything right now, but I can’t get past the news of the day.

Yet another 18-year-old madman with access to high-capacity weapons killed…