How many times are we going to do this?
Step 1: Guy kills a bunch of people in horrific fashion.
Step 2: People ask, "Why does this keep happening?"
Step 3: NRA types blame it on mental illness.
Step 4: People point out that America doesn't have a higher mental illness rate than other countries and that the only outlying stats are (a) gun ownership and (b) mass killings.
Step 5: NRA types offer their "thoughts and prayers."
Step 6: NOTHING HAPPENS.
Step 7: Repeat cycle.
Amazingly, when you do nothing in response to a repeating problem, the problem continues to repeat. This year is 36 days old, and we have had 24 school shootings.
This is shameful.
Not for nothing, this May, Speedway H.S. will graduate a new cohort of students. Not a single one of them will be old enough to buy a beer. Every one of them will be old enough to buy an assault weapon.
Does this make sense?
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