THE AMERICAN RITUAL OF THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS (PART 2)

In 2017, I published “The American Ritual of Thoughts and Prayers,” I tried to make sense of the strange ritual we engage in immediately after a mass shooting event or extreme gun violence incident. Like clockwork, we rinse and repeat the same scenario with hollow conviction and a fake sense of duty. The performance we all engage in is pathetic. In the first installment of this essay, I wrote…