"...Nowadays, watching the news, and reading social media, I feel a bit like Tony Soprano myself.
A story breaks — a prominent person dies or there's a mass shooting, for instance — and the exact same reactions appear on news media discussion panels and social media as the last time such a story occurred.
Then these reactions fade away as we grow weary of hearing about the event.
Then a similar event occurs and we all become embroiled in the exact same conversation.
We never change.
We just do it again and again and again.
...Likewise with a shooting like the one in Jacksonville, Florida.
We get a few minutes of thoughts and prayers (a completely appropriate response to a tragic situation over which you have no control and in which you had no involvement).
Then the screaming starts over the Second Amendment.
The nation's media can't even give the families of the dead one lousy day to grieve in peace before they are at each other's throats.
Then the screaming fades.
The news and social media move on.
Until the next time, when it all starts again.
We're in Hell..."
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