FILE — A shopper walks with merchandise outside the Miami Gun Show, at the Miami-Dade Country Fair and Exposition Center in Miami, Fla., on May 28, 2022. “This time of year, we have to live with a deluge of terrible stories about mass shootings, snuffing out the lives of people who were just going about their business when some guy (OK, almost universally a guy) comes by and starts firing into the crowd,” writes New York Times columnist Gail Collins. (Damon Winter/The New York Times)