It has felt a LOT like this today.
Another mass shooting last night. Las Vegas. At the end of a country music festival. Lone gunman with an arsenal of assault weapons in a hotel situated in an elevated position across from the concert. Open fired with automatic weapons into a crowd of nearly 30,000. 58 dead and hundreds injured last count.
Just numb.
Checked with Diane about Carol and Jeff...and Steve and Kay (also DS) marked themselves okay. So that was a relief.
Even made the mistake of listening to this guy live this morning
Yeah. It has been a completely non-productive day.
Not sure...when the dust settles...it is going to change a thing.
Let me explain.
Luby's Cafeteria Texas 1991
Hennard crashes his truck through the wall of the cafeteria...gets out...shoots 23 people...then kills himself.
Columbine 1999
Klebold and Harris kill 12 of their fellow students in an unthinkable massacre. They then kill themselves.
Virginia Tech 2007
Cho kills 32 people in 2 separate locations on a shooting spree...then kills himself.
Sandy Hook 2012
Lanza opens fire in a school killing 20 first and second graders...also 6 instructors (and had killed his mother earlier that morning) then shoots himself.
Pulse Nightclub 2016
Mateen opens fire inside club killing 49 and injuring more than 50 before shooting himself.
Las Vegas 2017
Paddock fires from 32nd floor of hotel into an estimated concert crowd of 30,000.
58 killed outright. Hundreds hospitalized wounded.Some in critical condition. Gunman shoots himself.
And these are just some of the worst of the mass killings we have seen recently.
I think The Moment came for me in 2012 after Sandy Hook.After the bodies were buried...and the politicians pushed the issue back and forth on their plates like kids who have been forced to eat their Brussels Sprouts, but did absolutely NOTHING.
And somewhere along the line we absorbed/normalized the bullet riddled bodies of 6 year olds.
And once you go THERE...
Well, how do you ever find your way again?
Let's not fool ourselves...the NRA has owned The Whitehouse and Congress for quite some time. The amount of money they funnel to our elected officials is Obscene.
This morning there was already speculation on Wall Street that gun sales (and therefore stock) would actually INCREASE because of last night's massacre.
Yeah..how fucked up is that?
Then there are the 2nd Amendment folks...creeping out of the woodwork saying it is their CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT to have military assault weapons.
In my opinion, no Civilian NEEDS an assault weapon.
Seriously...you may WANT a grenade launcher, or tank...but you sure as hell don't NEED one...and it isn't your Constitutional Right to have one of those either.
You want to play with assault weapons...go join the military.
It might do you good to remember, when the Constitution was penned, the well-regulated militia carried black powder single shot rifles.
Okay?
I would like to believe this time might make a difference. That people might stand together and say
"We're fed up with this crap....something HAS to change."
but realistically...I wait...knowing before long the news will have a similar banner with
ANOTHER
or
AGAIN
~sigh~
Oh...and Tom Petty died of a massive MI last night.
Go, bad day.
More anon...