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The matter of curtailing the incidence of gun shootings and mass shootings does not require one to think ahead. There have been enough of them that one need no measure of prescience to know damn well that absent profound of some sort(s), they are going to happen again, no matter where they happen.They'll flunk. Someone isn't thinking ahead
Someone not thinking ahead isn't the problem. The problem is twofold:
- Too many people thinking way too hard to conjure ways to "spin" the matter so they can pacify the NRA, white nationalists, and "gun nuts" and appear also to be taking action to ameliorate the incidence of unlawful fatal shootings.
- Too many people simply not thinking.
In just the past year we've seen...
...and none of that fits with the spurious rhetoric Trump and other Republicans would have Americans believe because every one of those curs was born and raised an American. Indeed, looking back to 2012, the only non-American mass shooter, IIRC, was Tashfeen Malik, one of the two San Bernardino (SB) mass-shooters (14 dead), though the other SB shooter was born and raised in the U.S.
- Parkland, FL -- 17 dead; 14 injured by Nikolas Cruz
- Las Vegas -- 58 dead; 500+ injured by Steven Paddock
- Ft. Lauderdale airport -- 5 dead, 8 injured by Esteban Santiago
- Sutherland Springs, TX -- 26 dead; 20 injured by Devin Patrick Kelley
- Lincoln County, MS -- 8 shot dead by Willie Cory Godbolt
I'm not reading all that crap.