Pakistan, April 17 -- The coffins in Kahramanmaras would haunt Turkey for years. Eight children and a teacher were buried after a 14-year-old walked into a middle school with pistols taken from his father and turned classrooms into a killing ground. A country (like many others around the world) that has long treated school shootings as an American sickness now has two in two days. The first, in Sanliurfa, came from a former student with a rifle. The second came from a child who had already left warnings in plain sight.

Turkey is not the United States, where firearm injury was the leading cause of death among children and teens aged 1 to 19 in 2022. School shootings are highly uncommon, let alone occurring in quick succession. Yet the Tur...