The day after the Columbine incident, the Fort Worth Star Telegram had a half-page, front-page, above-the-fold shot of a dead teenager on the sidewalk. There was such an outpouring of outrage against the newspaper, I never dreamed they would be so tactless and tasteless as to do it again. But sure enough, it was not on the front page, but it was in the front section, full page photo, of a person plunging to their death. I was sick at my stomach, just as I was at the poor Colorado teen. I hope to God my loved ones are not killed in a public tragedy, so they are spared that final indignity and desecration.

Incidentally, Friday is the 2nd anniversary of the Wedgewood Baptist Church shooting in Fort Worth.