Lee Cataluna: When A Horrific Crime No Longer Horrifies Us

Let the acid attack on the young Chinese teacher be the lowest point before citizens start taking Honolulu back.

Wake up, Honolulu, you’ve gone numb.

Bombarded with all manner of mayhem, criminal behavior and violence, you — the good, sun-warmed, civic-minded people of this island city — no longer get up in arms when evil sneaks up in the night and douses an innocent young woman with acid.

Not that there was no reaction. There was, but it amounted to a collective heavy sigh followed by a sad . . .