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We are still mostly, thank goodness, a society that recoils at senseless violence. When it occurs, we still feel moved to say: This is not who we are.

That’s our gut response to the news that a Hudson Valley food delivery driver who stopped to ask for directions was shot in the back, reportedly while trying to get away from the belligerent homeowner from whom he’d sought help.

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State Police said John J. Reilly III, an elected official in the town of Chester, Orange County, told the lost driver to get off his property, then shot at his car with a handgun as he was trying to leave. A bullet

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