At least two dozen people — many of them children — were reportedly killed today in a school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut. Instead of logging a new post, I feel it is fitting to repost an essay I wrote after the July 2012 movie theater shooting in Aurora, Colorado. While the details regarding these two shootings might be different, my essay addressed several problems with the broader American debate on guns — problems that persist, despite compelling factual evidence and further shootings which suggest Americans need to have a serious and reasoned conversation on gun control and mental health. The way I see it, the only other option we have is to accept tragedies such as the one that took place today as both inevitable and unpreventable — an option…