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COVID-19, shootings: Is mass death now tolerated in America?

People embrace at the scene of Saturday's shooting at a supermarket, in Buffalo, Thursday, May 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke) Iliana Calles prays at the Governor's Mansion, in Austin, Texas, during a protest organized by Moms Demand Action on Wednesday May 25, 2022, after a mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. (Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via AP) The flags fly at half-staff over the White House by order of President Joe Biden, Wednesday, May 25, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) A person holds a program for the funeral service for Aaron Salter Jr. at The Chapel on Crosspoint on Wednesday, May 25, 2022, in Getzville, N.Y. Salter Jr. was killed in the Buffalo supermarket shooting on May 14. (AP Photo/Joshua Bessex) The flags fly at half-staff over the White House by order of President Joe Biden, Wednesday, May 25, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) FILE - Investigators stand outside during a moment of silence for the victims of the Buffalo supermarket shooting outside the Tops Friendly Market on Saturday, May 21, 2022, in Buffalo, N.Y. Long before an 18-year-old avowed white supremacist inflicted terror at a Buffalo supermarket, the city's Black neighborhoods, like many others around the nation, had been dealing with wounds that are generations old. (AP Photo/Joshua Bessex, File)
COVID-19, shootings: Is mass death now tolerated in America?