I'm living outside of the US and this is the first time I heard of this. I did not have any intentions to link my release to a recent shooting.

Aren't shootings a daily occurrence in the US? Are we never allowed to allude because of recency?

Honest question: When is it appropriate to talk about this stuff? I see this often: "We are speaking about <event> too soon after it happened, we need to let the families <grieve|move on|have space>." It seems like one <event> happens, we can't talk about it, then a new one happens and the cycle goes on, never stopping to sit down and discuss how we keep ending up here.