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Commentary: Weeping as I watch a mother’s face flash across my screen

The fear could choke us. It could make us hide under the covers, bolt the doors, refuse to ever allow our children near a movie theater, a schoolhouse or a bike path.

Carrie Matula embraces a woman after a fatal shooting at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, on Sunday, Nov. 5, 2017. Matula said she heard the shooting from the gas station where she works a block away. (Nick Wagner/Austin American-Statesman via AP)

This is the headline from CNN that glares at me on Monday morning as I pull up a new tab on my internet browser.