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Because any newly penned editorial on gun violence and the prevalence of weapons of war in the hands of seemingly everybody only adds to long held positions, this editorial is being reprinted from Feb. 21, 2018, after the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.Add the numbers up: 58, 17, 13, 10, 27, 2012. That is an old exercise, written in 2018. Here are only the latest, late May, last week, murders: 10 in Buffalo, May 15 and now 21 in Uvalde, Texas, May 24. Include Joe Garcia, dead of a heart attack – heartbreak – May 26 and the total is 22 in Te...