Because this is America, the massacre in Boulder yesterday will bring out not only a chorus of "thoughts and prayers" but also unsupported arguments either advocating for everyone to be armed or no one to be armed... and within a few weeks the news will take us to another community and another mass shooting.
I knew that the shooter was a male -- really, it always is -- and was anything but shocked that some wack job in body armor and carrying an AR-15 could brazenly park his RAV4 and blaze away at a bunch of innocent strangers.
Colorado does not have any state laws banning "open carry" of weapons, though the related news will have to be about the court decision a week ago calling the city of Boulder's local ban on automatic weapons unconstitutional.
The killer waited six days, though I know logic says that one thing had little or nothing to do with the other.
A common refrain is, "This is not America. This is not who we are."
To do better, we as a nation need to get over this myth. America is most definitely a place where mass shooting happen routinely. We have lots of damaged people and lots of working firearms, and we refuse to acknowledge basic cause and effect, or at lest the clear indication that both those factors come together, day after day, and year after year.
And now, back to March Madness.
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