...but massacres, like you say, have become hum drum every day occurrences.

I believe it is ok to carry a gun on campus now. Though I believe it was off campus.

That is our reality.

stirred and then everything settles down again until the next one. It's pathetic. It's the same pattern, and we have in many cases useless politicians with their hands out for money.

Or 13 at an office Christmas party. Or 58 at a country music festival. It doesn't matter what the target is, or how many die. Until these things are banned or controlled, we're all sitting ducks.

So called assault weapons of the semi-automatic variety, like AR15s, have been around a long time (since 1964).

I remember the pushback on Congress in the 1990s when they passed it and then the growing interest in AR as a result because of the "forbidden fruit" factor. Plus you could still buy an AR during the 1004 AWB if you swapped it didn't the flash suppressor and bayonet lug. You know, because there were so many drive-by bayonettings in the US.

Then when the ban went away from a lack of Congressional action, more people than ever wanted one.

The law of unintended consequences.