Enough

Columnist Leonard Pitts Jr. flings words into the void after every mass shooting, such as the one last week in Isla Vista. He's tired of it. He also is running out of words. Words such as "grotesque" have lost their power. Demands to hold leaders accountable accomplish nothing. All that word-flinging doesn't make any difference.

It is a measure of a uniquely American insanity that truths so obvious and inarguable are regarded as controversial and seditious by many people in this country. Indeed, Georgia, recently enacted a law allowing guns in churches, school zones, bars, government buildings, even parts of airports. You think those words and that argument will find any purchase there? Don't hold your breath.

Since that shooting the carnage continues in big incidents and small. If we allow deaths to become routine we lose our humanity. We can't afford that. So he has a final word to fling: Enough.