Last Thursday we celebrated Thanksgiving. In the days leading up to it we were horrified by news of two more senseless mass shootings. These events are so frequent they generally don’t even make the news. Even when they are so horrific they do make the news, we have become oversaturated and indifferent. According to the Gun Violence Archive, a non-profit clearinghouse set up to monitor and document incidents involving firearms, there have been 617 mass shootings (defined as incidents in which four or more persons are killed or injured) in the United States since January 1, 2022. That comes out to 1.86 mass shootings per day. That is 7.4 people a day killed or injured in a mass shooting settin