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When it comes to gun violence, our ritual is well known: Express shock and horror.

Another mass shooting takes place in America. We pay our respects to the victims of such a tragedy, condemn the man who committed it and move on

November 1st's shooting at Los Angeles' LAX airport was the latest in a series of mass shootings. They're becoming so frequent that we've had to redefine the term "mass shooting" (four or more people need to be shot) and happening so often they've become a sort of macabre routine in the news cycle.

It’s 3:19 p.m. and I’m sitting in a coffee shop. I was going to do some light reading, but the book I brought, Sam Harris’s "Free Will", is on the table, unopened. I’m clicking “refresh” over and over on a Web browser on several different news websites, hoping that one of them is going to post, “UPDATE 3:20 PM: Meaning Behind Tragedy Uncovered, It All Makes Sense Now.”