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Dr. Elizabeth Blumfield had known happiness-academically, professionally, financially. She had also known tragedy-losing her parents during 9/11. But nothing would prepare her for what she was about to undergo, less than 5 minutes after deplaning from a successful business trip. Nothing.

"Somehow this has become routine! The reporting is routine, my response, here at this podium ends up being routine, the conversation in the aftermath of it, we've become numb to this. We talked about this after Columbine and Blacksburg, after Tucson, after Newtown, after Aurora, after Charlestown. It cannot be this easy for somebody who wants to inflict harm on other people to get his or her hands on a gun." President Obama, 10/01/2015, after Umpqua Community College shooting