On the Sunday after the Newtown massacre, President Barack Obama traveled to Connecticut to comfort the grieving community. As the president offered what he could to the town, other American communities, in less visible ways, were grappling with their own menace of violence. In Camden, New Jersey -- a city that has already suffered 65 violent deaths in 2012 , surpassing the previous record of 58 violent deaths set in 1995  -- 50 people turned out, some bearing white crosses, to mourn a homeless woman known affectionately as the "cat lady"  who was stabbed to death (50 of the deaths so far this year resulted from gunshot wounds.)
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While America was mourning Newtown victims, guns were claiming lives elsewhere in U.S.
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Authors: Media focus on mass shootings, but continuing violence also needs coverage
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They say inner cities suffer an epidemic of gun killings, and young are particularly vulnerable
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Authors: There is a day-by-day slaughter of children that must be stopped
These statements imply that in America's leafy-green small towns and suburbs, gun violence is a shocking travesty; it strikes against @placeholder's perception of what is acceptable.