Maine Rep. Jared Golden’s penance offers a sign of hope after yet another mass shooting

Another mass shooting with an AR-15-style rifle, this time in Maine. As a nation, we’ve become troublingly inured to this kind of event. Multiple communities have been traumatized only to see politicians throw up their hands.

The twisted American resistance to sensible gun control is too ingrained. In our region, of course, residents of Highland Park cope after the July 4, 2022, horror, and many still recovering psychologically (and some physically) must feel some bitterness at being consigned to some sort of hall of fame of tragedy. Parkland, Newtown, Paradise, Uvalde … Highland Park.