The United States of America just suffered another mass shooting of elementary school children, this time in Texas. I wrote about the last one(!) in 2012, and I basically predicted this one a week later.
If it isn’t already obvious, nothing has changed in the last 10 years. I take that back, something has changed – it’s even easier now to buy guns, especially assault-style weapons.
The gutless politicians governing our gun-crazy culture love their power too much to do anything about mass shootings. These Republicans – and let's call a spade a spade, that’s who they are – accept millions of dollars from the gun lobby to retain their legislative ‘jobs’ in return for making it easy in this country to buy plentiful guns and ammunition.
These pathetic grifters love money and power more than the safety of the citizenry. As cover, they try to blame mass shootings on everything else but guns. Then after some time goes by, they try to water down our gun laws even more, as directed by their gun-lobby (Read: NRA) overlords.
It's hard to think how much less safer our gun laws can be when an 18 year-old in Texas can buy assault weapons without a comprehensive background check or waiting period. How hard is it to correlate that with the fact the United States is the only nation in the world where mass shootings regularly happen?
In a way, the gun lobby has had it right all along. Guns don't kill people, people kill people -- especially if they're a politician with an R behind their name.
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