Pakistan, June 12 -- Every life holds intrinsic value, it should never be a means to an end, and every time it is taken, regardless of the circumstances, it is a moral and societal failure.

Sana Yousaf's name joins a grim, ever-growing litany of loss in Pakistan. The bullet that took her young precious life was the same bullet that exposed yet again, like many other bullets, the fatal flaw in Pakistan's struggle against gun violence. It did not just enact a femicide, it spoke of male entitlement and its transformation to lethal force. Lethal force that was made easier by Pakistan's torrent of illegal guns. This pervasive availability of firearms is what makes commonplace disputes a moment of irreversible carnage, and mindless violence. ...