The Usual Gang of Idiots over at MAD offer their Do-It-Yourself Constantly-Reoccuring Mass Shooting News Story. I'm afraid they'll be able to post this over and over for a long time.
This posting is, of course, about the mass shooting in Texas yesterday but it'll also be about the mass shooting somewhere else later this week and the one next week and the three the week after. It's nice when people write or say "Our thoughts are with the victims and their loved ones" or "Our prayers are with them" but we all know that's become just another way of saying, "Let's not actually do anything about this kind of thing." I'm starting to get more annoyed at that than I am at the inevitable Alex Jones theory of how it's all a phony story concocted by the government to push its anti-gun agenda. If he hasn't announced it yet, he will.
I continue to believe that there are laws that could be passed that without infringing on legitimate Second Amendment concerns would lessen (not eliminate but lessen) this kind of thing. And I continue to believe that they'll never be even seriously considered until such time as we can say, "You know, X number of Congresspersons and Senators lost their seats in the last election because they opposed Gun Control." And X will have to be a high number. I do not expect this to happen in our lifetimes especially if the almost-unrestricted access to guns shortens those lifetimes.