The Gun Lobby’s Most Cynical Move Yet

As a newspaper reporter, I covered my first school shooting in 2007 at Virginia Tech, where 32 students and faculty were murdered and 17 others were wounded. In one story, I recounted how Emily, a 19-year-old sophomore, was lying partially behind a desk on the floor of her French class while the shooter gunned down her teacher and nearly every student around her before shooting himself in the head. I can’t forget the image of Emily, shot twice herself, who pretended to be dead but…