John Klar: The fame effect

Editor’s note: This commentary is by John Klar, a Vermont grass-fed beef farmer, and an attorney and pastor who lives in Westfield.
The recent backlash against guns in the wake of the Florida school shooting has a distressing aspect: The media named this offender by name, vaunted him as “No. 2” in history, and amped up the gun hype that creates dangerous gun infatuation in the mentally ill.
I appreciate that gun violence is horrifying, but it always has been. What is new is thi