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"coming on the heals of the Newtown shooting". one assumes they meant heels. that'd be the typical homophone substitution. however, they might actually mean heals. as in, people suffered emotional and physical wounds at the newtown shooting. but they healed. or started to. and then the stupid journalists went and did this. and the stupid gun people went and did that. pah. completely undoing whatever heals might have been made in the short time since.