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lpbk2713

(42,766 posts)
Sat Aug 3, 2019, 05:17 PM Aug 2019

One of the things that worry me about mass shootings ...



And there are many.

But it terrifies me to think that some time in the future a story like this at El Paso will be aired ten minutes into the six o'clock news or in Section B of the local news rag. I hope there never comes a time when we just throw up our hands and walk away. This is an outrage.

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treestar

(82,383 posts)
1. Once sandy hook happened
Sat Aug 3, 2019, 05:20 PM
Aug 2019

And the gun nuts valued their second amendment right over the safety of six year olds, there was no way that any other shooting was going to get to them

Vinca

(50,300 posts)
7. Sadly, nothing will happen until Republicans realize they do not exist in an armor-plated bubble.
Sat Aug 3, 2019, 05:30 PM
Aug 2019

You'd think after Scalise was shot they might wake up, but for some reason they're still willing to put their families at risk while they're at the mall.

PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,873 posts)
8. We are pretty much at that point.
Sat Aug 3, 2019, 05:33 PM
Aug 2019

If anything ever changed after one of these, I'd take heart. But NOTHING changes. Guns become easier than ever to get. No serious attempt is made to register them, or hold owners responsible if their guns are stolen.

It might take a mass shooting that directly impacts people in a position to effect real change, for anything to ever be any different.

elocs

(22,596 posts)
12. If the nation and even Republicans were not moved and outraged
Sat Aug 3, 2019, 06:15 PM
Aug 2019

by Sandy Hook, with little kids being gunned down and murdered in the school, what will it ever take?

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