Update: Shooting near an El Paso mall causes 'multiple fatalities'

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

52. We live in a country of essentially unfettered gun ownership.

And until people stop defending that, nothing will change.

Along with the bullshit thoughts and prayers, there's the obligatory homage to "responsible" gun owners, who clearly would never perpetrate such horror. But that's as much crap as the thoughts and prayers. Again, as long as the NRA owns legislators, so long as supposedly reasonable people fight for background checks and registration, so long as anyone can buy a gun at a gun show or from a private citizen, these things will happen.

I refuse to get exercised about these slaughters any more. It's a routine occurrence, rather like the sun shining in Phoenix in the summer, or snow falling in Colorado in the winter.