Last week, in the aftermath of the mass shooting at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon, President Obama walked a well-worn path to the podium at the White House briefing room where he led the country on a collective déjà vu experience, saying: “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.”

The President’s awareness, and ours, that he was foreshadowing a future press conference at a date yet to be determined where he would try to help the country heal after yet another mass shooting focused on how much resistance there is to sensible gun reform legislation. Missing from the broader discussion are many questions worth asking, among them:

1. How can we pretend to be mystified about gun violence within our borders when violence as a concept and as actual hardware is the #1 U.S. export?

2. The 2nd Amendment. Can’t we limit or eliminate the so-called "right to bear arms"?