This time it's Orlando, Florida, and it's the worst in American history....
UPDATE: Here's what you should know about this horrific event.
UPDATE II: Charles Pierce on what is lost with every mass shooting:
It is never innocence which gets lost in these episodes. It's illusions. Americans can make war on each other for the most sacred of reasons—reasons drawn from the Scriptures of all faiths, reasons drawn from our own conceptions of the divine, of our relationships with our personal Lords and saviors. We have a positive genius for this kind of thing. [snip]
This thing happened because this is America, where these things happen more often than any other place in the world. This thing happened because who we are comes up so very short of who we believe ourselves to be.
