Opinion editor's note: Star Tribune Opinion publishes letters from readers online and in print each day. To contribute, click here . ••• I wrote my first letter to the editor back in 2012 when I was a junior in high school. The first one I got published was following a mass shooting. I have submitted letters about mass shootings since then, and seriously contemplated writing another one after Buffalo, but what is the point anymore? I have grown up in a generation of mass shootings and have honestly become numb; I'm numb because I know these will continue to happen...