God bless America...
At some level you have to ask yourself, what the hell is wrong with those people?
The second amendment is a beautiful thing. At the same time, there's something to be said for having some checks in the system that would prevent the mentally ill from buying assault weapons. Whatever excuses will be proffered up over the next few days, there's no getting around the fact that one would have to be profoundly disturbed to take a gun into Walmart and shoot people down.
No doubt we'll soon hear the argument that if only more folks in Dayton or in that El Paso Walmart had been carrying, the shooters would have been stopped sooner. Is that the answer?
Probably not. Mass shootings are a symptom of a deeply dysfunctional society. The symptoms won't go away until the underlying root causes are addressed, and as far as I can see, that's not even on the agenda.
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