Small mall in a rather out of the way place, good for bathroom break before going to Anacortes to catch ferry to San Juans.

and have stopped there on my way to the Anacortes ferry.

getting shot at in the Tacoma Mall years ago. She was just lucky her son wanted to look for socks in a store right before the area where people were shot.

America likes it this way.

say that you are wrong and writing off people who are killed is incredibly insensitive.

Show us all how its done. Don't keep us in suspense.

those kiilled as statistics, but each was a person with friends and family and each address grieved.

Don't let your heart harden and not care.

Many restrictions are quite popular, but the elected officials are more beholden to the entrenched NRA and those who are highly motivated to vote for the NRA. Because of how the House is so gerrymandered, the NRA can get away with opposing things that 80%+ believe in because their voters are highly motivated by that issue and are concentrated in particular districts.

The groups opposed to gun violence haven't yet been as successful at motivating voters. The NRA has managed to thoroughly convince a lot of gun owners that any Democratic candidate is plotting like Snidely Whiplash to take away their precious guns, that even something as simple as an enhanced background check drives them into a frenzy.

But over time, I think that will be less effective.

The bigger question to me is how do we have reasonable restrictions on guns in a world where 3D printing is a thing? In the long term, there isn't a way to prevent people from being able to print their own guns.

For voters who support increased gun control, it isn't their most important issue. To voters opposed to increased gun control, it typically is.

there would be fewer slaughters - it's that effin' simple.

FFS look at what you can do with ammonia and fertilizer or with stereos. If we don't start to adress underlying causes of these massacres, they'll continue, with or without gun laws.

Fixating on guns, and keeping focus and energy away from searching for true root causes of violence, YOU are to blame. People can commit mass murder without guns