Society / A growing number of US residents have lived through more than one massacre. Jeet Heer On Saturday, Mia Tretta, a junior at Brown University, survived her second school shooting. Her first brush with death was a close one.

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Elected officials must do more than condemn the carnage and vow to crack down on the gun epidemic that continues to kill, maim, and traumatize the United States.

Nothing encapsulates the failures of our society more than what just happened to Mia Tretta. When she was 15, she was shot in the stomach by a classmate at her high school in California. Yesterday, she survived the second school shooting of her short life: A person opened fire at Brown University, where Tretta is a junior.

A shooter killed two children and injured 21 people—three adults in their 80s and 18 children between the ages of 6 and 15—at Annunciation Church in Minneapolis last week. The shots came through a stained glass window while the children attended their ...