On Friday night, the Outlook’s social media producer texted several of us to ask if we’d heard about a mass shooting in Las Vegas, Nevada, on the UNLV campus.
Out of the four people on the thread, only one had heard.
"And there was a shooting spree in Texas," I texted back. "Six dead."
"There have been 630+ mass shootings in the U.S. this year," our producer texted.
Our text thread fell quiet.
There could be a number...