unlike school shootings, drone strikes killing civilians in distant lands rarely make the news here, much less the headlines. 
most of us at least now know what it means to live in a country where school shootings 
are an almost weekly news story. 
drones are another matter entirely, and beyond the innocents they so regularly slaughter, there are long-term effects on the communities they are attacking.
as veterans for peace put it, “here at home, deaths of students and others killed in mass shootings and gun violence, including suicide gun deaths, are said to be the price of freedom to bear arms.