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workinclasszero

(28,270 posts) Tue Oct 24, 2017, 06:55 PM Oct 2017

The NRA hoped everyone would forget the Las Vegas massacre. It only took 3 weeks.

The NRA hoped everyone would forget the Las Vegas massacre. It only took 3 weeks.
Legislation has stalled and interest has faltered. The NRA has won this round.
ADDY BAIRD OCT 24, 2017, 12:32 PM

At this point, it feels like tale as old as time: Man takes up gun and slaughters dozens of elementary school children in Newtown or clubgoers in Orlando or concert attendees in Las Vegas. Social media is flooded with messages of concern, with thoughts and prayers, with surety — at least from some — that this time, things will be different.

This time, they’lll ban semi-automatic weapons. This time, they’ll close the no-fly list loophole. This time, they’ll outlaw bump stocks.

But Vegas isn’t different.

It’s been a little more than three weeks since Stephen Paddock opened fire on a country music festival, shooting out the window of a Mandalay Bay hotel room in Las Vegas, Nevada, killing 58 people and injuring more than 500 others.

It was the worst mass shooting in modern American history, and it doesn’t even matter.

https://thinkprogress.org/forgetting-vegas-shooting-679397afc814/

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The NRA hoped everyone would forget the Las Vegas massacre. It only took 3 weeks. (Original Post) workinclasszero Oct 2017 OP

We missed the 3 minute window that was the right time ? rickford66 Oct 2017 #1

so fucking on point. Amimnoch Oct 2017 #2

Couldn't even get pass gun-strokers whining about possibly losing access to bump stocks Hoyt Oct 2017 #3

trump owns every second of every news cycle spanone Oct 2017 #4

This time they didn't even bother going through the phony exercise about how we need better Vinca Oct 2017 #5

Had the same thought this morning malaise Oct 2017 #6

As the *******'s in the Gungeon would say, "It's the price we pay for the 2nd Amendment" madinmaryland Oct 2017 #7

rickford66

(5,524 posts)

1. We missed the 3 minute window that was the right time ?

Reply to workinclasszero (Original post)

Tue Oct 24, 2017, 06:59 PM

Oct 2017

No sweat, There'll be another opportunity.

Amimnoch

(4,558 posts)

2. so fucking on point.

Reply to rickford66 (Reply #1)

Tue Oct 24, 2017, 07:15 PM

Oct 2017

After the shooting.. "not the right time".
later.. "it's old news."

Of course having the daily outrages doesn't help one damn bit. It's like scandal ADD.

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)

3. Couldn't even get pass gun-strokers whining about possibly losing access to bump stocks

Reply to workinclasszero (Original post)

Tue Oct 24, 2017, 07:16 PM

Oct 2017

These killings, armed spousal abuse, armed white wing militia groups, etc., will just get worse until someone in power has the guts to stand their ground against this junk, and -- to the extent they actually exist -- "responsible gun owners" say this has gone too far.