“ ‘When I wrote this headline, I had no idea it would be applied to the high school a mile from my house.’ ” — Jason Roeder, former Onion writer

After every mass shooting since 2014 satirical news outlet the Onion repeats this story with the headline: “ ‘No way to prevent this,’ says only nation where this regularly happens.”

Wednesday’s deadly high school shooting in Broward County, Fla., in which at least 17 students and adults were killed and many more injured, brought the violence home for Jason Roeder, who can claim that headline.