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A Call for Media Decency Toward Families in the Throes of Tragedy

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People stand near debris following flash flooding in Kerrville, Texas, July 5, 2025.

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“Put your f***ing hands up.”

You haven’t lived until this has been screamed at you by law-enforcement officers with semiautomatic rifles as you sit in the back of a Nordstrom café on an otherwise nondescript Monday night in New Jersey.

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Kathryn Jean Lopez

Kathryn Jean Lopez is a senior fellow at the National Review Institute and the religion editor of National Review. Sign up for her weekly newsletter here. She is the author of A Year with the Mystics: Visionary Wisdom for Daily Living.

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