Two killed, several injured in mass shooting at Columbus nightclub

In the early hours of a Friday morning in Columbus, Ohio, a dispute inside a crowded nightclub crossed the threshold that so many disputes do not — from words into gunfire. Two people lost their lives at the Avalon Dance Club, and several others were wounded, adding their names to a toll that, by mid-2024, had already claimed nearly 7,600 lives to gun violence across the United States. The incident asks, as so many before it have asked, what it means to live in a society where a night of dancing can end in death.