There was another school shooting yesterday; this time in Oregon.
Mass shootings have now become such a regular event that it takes something special to get them on the front page. The Arizona shooters made it, but they had to work on it. Maybe it was draping that “Don't tread on me” flag on their victims.
As these events become routine the response becomes more and more predictable. The act is dismissed as that of a mentally unstable individual, and no attention is paid to the fact that he or she (usually he, but we just had a she) would have been unable to wreak such havoc were not the technological means of wreaking so easily obtained.
The NRA has won, not by diminishing the number of such incidents, but by creating conditions that make them so commonplace that we don't give them a second thought. Hey, shit happens-what are you gonna do?
The only thing likely to change this is if someone brings a gun to the Supreme Court and starts spraying. But, of course, our “Second Amendment rights” are not operative in those hallowed halls.
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