Feature / December 23, 2024

When Our Orgy of Gun Violence Came to My Hometown

After Columbine and Sandy Hook, after the AME Church in Charleston and the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, we stopped saying “It can’t happen here.” And then it did.

Eric Orner
Eric Orner

Eric Orner is a former congressional aide to Barney Frank and has published comic strips and illustrations in The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, the San Francisco Chronicle, and The New Republic.

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