The Boston Globe has a chillingly bold front page statement about gun violence in America

Many have remarked on the disturbing familiarity of mass shootings, but in a powerful statement, The Boston Globe dedicated its Friday front page not to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School but to the next attack — one that hasn't even happened yet.

"He will be a man, or maybe still a boy," the article begins. "He will have a semiautomatic rifle — an AR-15, or something like it — and several high-capacity magazines filled with ammunition. The weapon will have been purchased legally, the background check no obstacle. He will walk into a school, or a concert, or an office building. And he will open fire into a crowd of innocents."

Read the full chilling article at The Boston Globe.

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