Will El Paso and Dayton Become More Mass Shootings We Forget?

This story was first published after the October 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas, the deadliest mass shooting in our history. We will republish it every time America suffers another mass shooting. A.J. Schnack remembers the calm in every town. No matter how hellish the shooting, or how many news crews came, things always went back to normal. So Schnack made a film. “Every time, there’s people who think we need to do something about this violence, then the other side says, ‘Now is not the time,’ and then a few days go by and there’s just… nothing,” he said. “I wanted to make something that shows these events happening again and again and how they echo one another.” Also Read: Mass Shooting at Texas Church Sparks Mourning, Outcry: 'We Can Do Better Than This' Schnack’s film, “Speaking Is Difficult,” travels to Colorado Springs, Colorado; Charleston, South Carolina; Fort Hood, Texas; Tucson, Arizona, — and to 21 other cities and towns that have suffered mass killings. Now we can add El Paso and Dayton to the list. Will the pattern of nothing changing continue? Schnack has seen how quickly the news cycle can move on even after deadly shootings with lots of...