Bad news: Fear, loathing and resilience

It was raining bullets.
 
Something about that image has stuck with me throughout the last week, after the mass shooting in Las Vegas.
 
I wasn’t there. I wasn’t anywhere near the Jason Aldean concert, or the Mandalay Bay Casino hotel, or its 32nd floor.
 
But that image, of death pelting concertgoers like rain, has lingered in my thoughts, and through my days.
 
It’s an unwelcome new nightmare, one more haunting idea to throw upon the pile in what seem