Just another Wednesday in America. I go for a run on a beautiful day in the Colorado foothills and what do I hear the whole time? Sirens. I get home and tell my wife something is going on in town. I had my suspicions and she confirms them, there was a shooting at Evergreen High School. Three kids shot, all in critical condition. God damn it. How many school shootings has this state had now? It's every year at this point.
I go online to look for more details. And all the headlines are all about a different shooting. The victim's last words were, basically, "we don't have a gun problem, we have a black people problem." Well, it would seem he was proven wrong. What an awful video.
Of course, it is immediately assumed, based on zero evidence, that the shooter was a Democrat. And the conservative world is now basically demanding that the military be deployed against every Democratic voter in America. But we don't know anything about the guy who shot him yet. Maybe he was Democrat. But, as we have seen time and time and time and time again, people who are driven to commit these shootings are usually mentally ill and have bizarre, nonsensical political views.
For decades, this country's response to gun violence has been to do... absolutely nothing. Our appetite for it is bottomless. And things just keep getting worse. Go figure.