in wakefield elementary school in turlock, california. berendo middle school in new mexico. at south carolina state university in orangeburg, south carolina. at widener university in pennsylvania. at purdue university in indiana. shootings are down in new york city, but the city still has seen 58 incidents in the first 23 days of 2014. philadelphia was already numbering 22 murders on the 20th of this month, more murders than days in the year. chicago has had at least 41 shooting deaths this year. detroit, at least 38 shootings. some fatal. there have been shootings in a supermarket, in a barbershop, in a movie theater. and then yesterday, the latest. a shooting at a mall in columbia, maryland, left three people dead. the 19-year-old gunman killing two employees at a skate shop before apparently shooting himself. police don't yet know the motive. 2013 is the year we took no meaningful national legislative action to curb gun violence. and it appears that 2014 is the year that we will live and die with the consequences of that inaction. that