A lot of folks are hammering Jeb! Bush for his quoted response to the shootings in Oregon — "Stuff happens!" And when I heard the statement trimmed down to not much more than that, I thought it sounded clumsy and tactless. But Jonathan Chait, who sure isn't a fan of Jeb!, thinks the candidate is being taken out of a more sensitive context.
Incidentally, my response to the mass shooting is pretty much the same as it was for the last mass shooting and the one before that and the one before that (etc.) I don't have anything but the obvious to say but I'll try to come up with something for the next mass shooting. Or the one after that or the one after that or the one after that (etc.)…