If we're going to have one of these unfortunate exercises in Second Amendment freedoms every couple of days, somebody should alert news editors and news directors so that they can be properly prepared. The cost of freedom is always high, you know. First, UNC-Charlotte, and now this one, on Tuesday, in Denver, which produced the saddest passage in the long history of The New York Times.

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"I heard a gunshot," said Makai Dixon, 8, a second grader who had been training for this moment, with active shooter drills and lockdowns, since he was in kindergarten. "I’d never heard it before."

Eight years old.

Second grade.

Trained properly in how to stay safe in school against someone opening up with military-grade weapons.

Trained since kindergarten.

To hell with any society that makes that sentence possible.

To hell with anyone who made that society possible.

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