Posted on 10/04/2017 6:39:09 PM PDT by Ennis85
Maybe this time will be different. Maybe the sheer number of people killed and injured at a country music festival in Las Vegas — at least 59 dead and more than 500 injured in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history — will finally lead to some common-sense restrictions on guns.
Because the age and innocence of the victims at Sandy Hook Elementary School, where 20 first-graders held up their hands to try to shield themselves from the gunfire in their classroom five years ago, didn’t make a difference.
Because the transformation of the bucolic Virginia Tech campus into a killing field for 32 promising young people and their professors 10 years ago didn’t make a difference.
Because the 12 people slaughtered in the darkness of an Aurora, Colo., movie theater five years ago didn’t make a difference.
Because the nine people gunned down by a white supremacist during a Bible study at a Charleston, S.C., church two years ago didn’t make a difference.
Because a Republican lawmaker being shot during a congressional baseball practice in June — Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) was able to return to work only last week — didn’t make a difference.
President Trump didn’t talk about the real American carnage at his inauguration, which happens before our eyes every day. This year alone, more than 11,700 people have been killed by gunfire. As my colleague John Woodrow Cox reported last month, almost two dozen children are shot every day in the United States.
But those with the power to stop the killing have no interest in doing so.
“I will never, ever infringe on the right of people to keep and bear arms,” our president vowed in a speech to the National Rifle Association at its national conference this year.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
“But those with the power to stop the killing have no interest in doing so.”
Dems have had the House, Senate and White House in the not distant past.
What did they do?
Will the left’s desire for massive death to Trump supporters matter to the left themselves?
Whether Trump cares or not it irrelevant. They are not going to become un-dead because he “cares”.
Will the many instances of leftists calling for the death of Trump supporters be examined seriously?
“...Dems have had the House, Senate and White House in the not distant past... What did they do?”
Exactly what they do in Chicago, Detroit, and elsewhere. NOTHING. Just like the stinking Washington Compost.
Will the causal behavioral link between leftist propaganda and particular instances of murder be spoken of publically by conservative media hosts?
Will hundreds killed and hurt by gunfire in Chicago matter to anybody?
The left gets sicker and sicker. Guns do not kill. People kill.
Does the WaPo have even one writer with above agerage IQ?
Constitutional carry now. #onlygunviolencematters
. . . "Common-sense", they said.
The libhole demonicrats and their media/entertainment teammates cannot hide the joy they are feeling that they may get away with killing so many people they believe are Trump suppporters.
And if they can get more gun control from this massacre, they would be ovwrwhelmingly orgasmic.
I would like to know what common sense gun restrictions look like.
And exactly what restrictions would you suggest that would have prevented this tragedy Petula?
massively dimensioned graphics RUINS the thread for iOS users. this is just poor forum citizenship.
When 100 people die in a plane crash. Do the Democrats demand an end to civilian air travel?
I am tired of all these fools preaching what we need to do. They have no answers any more than the other side. Evil happens no matter how you try and stop it.
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