Karla's Kolumn

President Barack Obama, during his speech in response to the mass shooting at a community college in Roseburg, Ore., Thursday, said, “Somehow this has become routine. The reporting is routine. My response here at this podium ends up being routine. The conversation in the aftermath of it. We’ve become numb to this.”

He’s right, especially about the routine of the reporting. Or is he? It appears to...