Gun violence already has affected all of us. Like Susan Sontag professed decades ago, seeing images of horror over and over desensitizes us to its reality. It has become normal that the evening news gives the body count of gun victims every day or every week . Friends from other parts of the state or the country, ask me if I am afraid to live in Baltimore with its high rate of shootings and gun deaths. I always respond that all of that violence usually happens in low-income neighborhoods or it usually happens to people who are somehow involved in crime. That's just not true.