But the broader tragedy of gun violence is felt mostly not in leafy suburbs, but in America's inner cities.
The broader tragedy is that his decision to go to such extremes in his fight with Heartland has greatly set back any prospects of the country having the "rational public debate" that he wrote — correctly — is so desperately needed.
It's easy to comprehend and easy to decry, but the broader tragedy of thousands of lives lost to cancer and anthropogenic desertification doesn't fit so easily in a blog post, or the short international news section of the local paper.
Beckett, O'Neill and Shaw might seem oddities at a Shakespeare festival, but the Stratford repertory often encompasses a broad spectrum: Greek tragedy (a well-received "Trojan Women" this season), American musical comedy (an inventive "Cabaret," directed by Amanda Dehnert, and a sellout "Music Man," directed by Susan H. Schulman) and newly commissioned work too.
If you instead believe that it fits into a broader category of tragedies that can/should be handle differently, please specify which events and what criteria should be used to select them.
When lawmakers convene on Wednesday morning for a hearing on the space shuttle disaster, they will examine both the technical aspects of the tragedy and broader issues about safety, costs and the ultimate goals of the nation's space program.
In a meeting held after Friday prayers at the Gambian community mosque in Smethwick, near Birmingham city centre, senior police chiefs told worshippers that detectives would examine "the history of the company" as part of a broad investigation into the tragedy.
The American capacity for tragedy is much broader and far more robust than Americans most of us, anyway recognize.
Mr Bok attempts to put his personal tragedy in a broader political context and provides an account of his life as an anti-slavery activist in the United States.
"The agony these girls and women are now suffering as a result of such ordeals requires an urgent scaling up in the provision of specialist mental health care, and medical support as part of the broader response to this unfolding tragedy," said Sesay.
In a sense Daumier was to lithography, which was in its infancy when he first took it up at age 14, what Chaplin or Keaton was to the movies: a natural genius whose artistic and emotional instincts predisposed him to a medium that was relatively unexplored, technically dazzling and implicitly populist, capable of vividly communicating the human comedy, and tragedy, to a broad swath of humans.
