This is a moral “Groundhog Day.” We reawaken from this regular nightmare of guns and shootings and mass death, and as yet, we have not learned anything. But, eventually, he realizes he can use his constant reawakenings as opportunities to learn. He is trapped in an endless time loop, a version of the mythic eternal return. It is like a grim version of one of my favorite movies, “Groundhog Day.” Phil Connors (played by Bill Murray) keeps waking up on the same day - Groundhog Day - in the location of the official Groundhog Day festivities in western Pennsylvania. We can say with utter certainty - with emunah shleimah, with complete faith - there will be a next time. Last week in Buffalo and in California and …Īnd so, we say “enough.” We say to ourselves: This will be the last time we utter that word, “enough.” Asian American massage businesses in Atlanta (2021). A Walmart in majority-Hispanic El Paso, followed just hours later by a shooting in a popular nightlife corridor in Dayton, Ohio (2019). A country music festival in Las Vegas (2017). A government-funded nonprofit center in San Bernardino (2015).
Since Sandy Hook, this nation has experienced more than 3,500 mass shootings.Ī Black church in Charleston (2015).
But, this is not the first time that I, and we, have said “enough.”
