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More pieces of the puzzle are now emerging in Tucson as the shooter’s disorderly web postings come to light. And more ideas are put forth on how the tragedy could have been prevented.

But the fact remains: it wasn’t prevented. There was no rewind button when the bullets started to fly on Saturday morning. All the “if onlys” were irrelevant at that point.

The only thing to do then was to stop the carnage, and help the wounded. Tucson did better than many other places, such as Columbine and Virginia Tech. We have brave and prepared citizens to thank, who acted as Americans should, and subdued the shooter before he could re-load.

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